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Yorkshire Chess History |
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1859: Burnley v Settle Match |
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Played at Burley, on Friday 10/06/1859, over 7 boards, 3 games per board.
Though now in North Yorkshire, Settle was then in the West Riding.
Settle must surely be the most westerly Yorkshire chess club on record, unless Kirby Lonsdale had one while it was in Yorkshire. The modern train route from Leeds to Carlisle passes through Settle, and incorporates the famous Settle-Carlisle run, with views of Pen-y-gent, Ingleborough and Whernside, and then the views from the Ribblehead viaduct. Settle is in hiking distance of Malham, Malham Cove and Malham Tarn, but there aren’t a lot of chess clubs nearby.
Burnley, pronounced, of course, with a Lancastrian Dibnah-style rhotic accent, is about 20 miles south, and very slightly east, of Settle, and so nearer Settle than the West Yorkshire chess clubs. “Burnley” in this case was a combination of the Burnley Church of England Literary Society and the Burnley Mechanics’ Institution
On 10th June, 1859, seven Settle chess-players travelled south to Burnley, Lancashire, to play a match which was recorded in the Leeds Mercury of 14/06/1859, and later, with less detail, in the Illustrated London News of 2nd July 1859. At each board three games were played. The results were as follows (colours etc unknown):
Slater's Commercial Directory of Durham, Northumberland & Yorkshire, 1855, listed
It also listed William Thomas Burrow, surgeon, Settle, whose seems likely to be connected with J.H. Burrow.
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Created 25/04/2012 |
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Last Updated 23/04/2014 |