by J. R. Ellis
All the place names in ‘Dales Incantation’ can be found on Ordnance Survey Explorer maps of the Yorkshire Dales area.
West Riding Police is a fictional force based on the old riding boundary. Harrogate was part of the old West Riding, although it is in today’s North Yorkshire.
About the Author
John R. Ellis has lived in Yorkshire for most of his life and has spent many years exploring Yorkshire’s diverse landscapes, history, language and communities. He recently retired after a career in teaching, mostly in further education in the Leeds area. In addition to the Yorkshire Murder Mystery series, he writes poetry, ghost stories and biography. He has completed a screenplay about the last years of the poet Edward Thomas and a work of faction about the extraordinary life of his Irish mother-in-law. He is currently working on his memoirs of growing up in a working-class area of Huddersfield in the 1950s and 1960s.