In spite of all their beauty the English villages are rotten at heart. You notice it less in the upland ones, such as those in the upper parts of the Yorkshire dales. The crops necessitate a more patriarchal method of farming and harvesting, the people are conservative and religious, they keep their brogue, their simplicity, their good looks, and their courteous manners. Also they live close to Nature and have a continual object-lesson which teaches that changes of one sort and another are only superficial, shadowy things; the substance of life does not change – there is something to work for but nothing to hurry about.
Vale/North
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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