Craven

:Craven is also an Old French word believed to mean "broken" and used in Trial by Combat. For the football stadium see Craven Cottage

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Craven is a local government district in the English county of North Yorkshire, centered around the market town of Skipton.

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The modern district came into being with the 1974 changes to British local government, as the merger of Skipton urban district, Settle Rural District and most of Skipton Rural District.

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Craven, or Cravenshire has been used a name for the area around Skipton for centuries, although the boundaries have differened, occasionally Craven has included the local towns of Keighley (now part of the City of Bradford) and Barnoldswick (now administered as part of the Lancashire borough of Pendle).

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The name Craven is Celtic in origin and is related to the Welsh word craf, or 'garlic'. In the middle ages, the area was known for its wild garlic.

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Old French: Old French is a term sometimes used to refer to the langue d'oïl, the continuum of varieties of Romance language spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland during the period roughly from 1000 to 1300 A.D....

Trial by Combat: Trial by combat is one of the most ancient forms of alternative dispute resolution, though it is little used today. In essence, it is a judicially sanctioned duel, also known as a judicial duel....

Craven Cottage: Craven Cottage is the name of a stadium in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham that has been the home ground of FA Premier League football team Fulham F.C. since 1896. The original cottage was built by Baron Craven in 1780, and at the time was situated in forest. It burnt down in 1888 and u...

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