Long ago Quote by Kate Noble

In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I'm Lancashire by name, and Lancashire was where I grew up - in Oldham.

— Sarah Lancashire

“The common where we had walked the previous evening was a deserted tract of land, typical of Surrey, looking as if it might be…

— Anthony Powell

“The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earth's surface. Down here it was…

— George Orwell

“We drove out of London, heading north through the East Midlands and across Yorkshire to Lancashire. I sat in the back with Monro wedged…

— Andrew Michael Hurley

I'm from this working class town on the fringes of the rural aspects of Lancashire.

— Joe Gilgun

I used to have favourite walks in the North of England. We'd take a minibus out of Oldham to the West Riding and walk…

— Bernard Cribbins

“For years, walking round London, I had been aware of the actual land, lying concealed but not entirely changed or destroyed, beneath the surface…

— Gillian Tindall

I grew up in Yorkshire, and once or twice a year, we'd travel over the Pennines to see my cousins in Cheshire.

— Anthony Browne

“You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it's not on the way to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Essex raised its ugly head. When i was a scholarship boy at the local grammar, son of a city-hall toiler on the make, this…

— David Mitchell

“Wallingford, six miles above Streatley, is a very ancient town, and has been an active centre for the making of English history.  It was…

— Jerome K. Jerome