TH ROUG H YO RKSH IRE I I I H FO RCE TEE A E G , SD L T HRO UG H YO RKSHIRE T H E C O UN T Y O F B R O AD A C R ES G O R D O N H O M E L O N D O N 65’ T O R O N T O ° EN T O N L T D . J. M . D 69 S S M C M X X I I DA 6 7 0 \ ‘ / 6 L 75 b P R EF A C E IT is a deep j oy to writ e of the wonderful variety ’ of Yorkshire s attractiveness , and my pen would carry me into exuberance were I not reminded that many who pick up this little book may have yet to discover the beauty and glamour of the great county . I have , therefore , tried to keep my great love of this portion of ancient Northumbria within and bounds , have even reduced the title of the volume to such colourless words that I might almost be accused of writing for the scurrying traveller who is content to pass through a country and carry away such impressions as he picks up n i an a ssa t . a p This , however, would not be a f r criticism , for, small as this little volume may be , I have endeavoured to indicate where romance and beauty may be found , where associations with literature and great events of history are of enshrined , and where the great solitudes heathery moorland and grassy fell ca ll to the jaded town dweller . In order to make it easy to reach any of the s places described , I have indicated the neare t railway station in italics as prominently as possi b le . i This information is of no nterest to the motorist , v 86 846 2 vi P R E F A C E for his means of locomotion ta ke right to castle , abbey, village , or moor ; but many of those who wish to explore Yorkshire are dependent l on the older means of travel , and wi l no doubt find these indications helpful—the map inside the front cover of the book showing the routes taken in the successive chapters . OR O O E G D N H M . C O N T EN T S PAG E THE YO R KSHTR E C S —F TH E H I . OA T ROM UMBER SCARBOROUG H l THE YO R KSHTR E C S —F C G H II . OA T ROM S ARBOROU THE TEES A N D T HE C H III . SELBY OUNTRY SOUT OF YORK AN D TH E DS IV . YORK WOL H H G H T HE F S AL TR ES V . FRO YORK T ROU ORE T OF G T o THE VALE OF PI C KERIN G C D AN D THE H Y SH Mo o Rs VI . LEVELAN NORT ORK IRE H ARROG ATE A N D T H E FOREST o r KNARESBOROUG H T HE H VI I I . ALON G URE B EL o w MAs HA I X I N S D E . WEN LEY AL X . X I . I N DEx L IST O F I L L UST RAT IO N S HALF- TONES H G H F C S D F ontis iece I OR E , TEE ALE r p YORK MIN STER (SOUT H AI S LE) F a cing pa ge 1 2 BRI D LIN G TON $UAY 1 6 FILEY BRI G 2 3 S CARBOROUG H 2 4 SALTBURN - B Y - T H E- SEA 3 8 YORK MIN STER (FROM A M Ezzo r xN T) 50 YORK MIN STER (BO O T B A M BAR) 59 BEVERLEY MIN STER 6 6 R I EVAUL x ABBEY 82 FOUNTAIN S ABBEY 92 GUI SBOROUG H ABBEY 1 26 A YORK S H IRE COTTAG ER I 3S KNARE SBOROUG H 1 42 T H E H S H G 1 BAT , ARRO ATE 44 B H D 1 6 BOLTON AB EY , W ARFE ALE 4 RIPON MIN STER 1 50 C S D 1 8 BOLTON A TLE , SWALE ALE 5 SG H F C S D 1 6 0 AY ART OR E , WEN LEY ALE RI C H MON D CASTLE 1 70 LINE DRAWINGS H ULL IN 1 6 40 PATRIN GTON CH UR C H H ORN S EA MERE FL AMBOROUG H H EA D TH E KEEP OF S CARBOROUG H CASTLE ’ TH E R H o o o s BAY TOWN . OBIN BAY WH ITBY ABBEY A N D HARBOUR WH ITBY H ARBOUR T HE O L D CASTLE OF MULG RAVE ix x L I S T O F I L L U S T R A T I O N S RUN SWI C K BAY FROM KETTL EN ESS THE NORMAN DOORWAY OF STILLIN G FLEET CH URCH TA DCASTER CHURCH FROM T H E BRI DG E ' ULF S H ORN AT YORK MIN STER STAMFOR D BRI DG E D UN BUR N HOL ME CH CH NORMAN WIN OW, N UR DETAIL OF TOMB OF LA D Y ELEANOR PERC Y IN BEVERLEY MIN STER NORMAN FONT IN NORTH GRIMSTON CH URCH “ $ H D H Co xwo L D S AN Y ALL , INTERIOR 0 B YORKS HIRE COTTAG E H OUS E AT KIRBY MOORSI D E WH ERE T HE SE CON D DUKE OF BU C KIN G H AM DIED SAX ON SUN DIAL AT KIRK D ALE STAFE CROSS TH E OL D HORN OF T HE SINNIN G TON H UNT NORMAN CRYPT OF LASTIN G H AM CH URCH MI D DLETON CH URC H P S H F ARLOUR OF GALLOW ILL ARM, BROMPTON H UTTON BUSCEL CH URC H TH E SAL TER SG ATE I N N I N T H E DEEP CANON OF NEWTON DALE TH E - C P C G MARKET PLA E , I KERIN A BRITI S H I D OL AT ALDBOROUG H FOUNTAIN S ABBEY FOUNTAIN S H ALL EFFI G IES IN WEST TANFIELD CHURCH MASHAM FROM ABOVE T H E BRI DG E WENS LEYDALE FROM LEYBURN S H AWL SEVENTEENT H - CENTURY HOUSE AT A S KRI GG H OUS E AT BARNAR D CASTLE . EG G LESTON ABBEY SKETCH MAP OF YORKSHIRE 2 T H E Y O R K S H I R E CO A S T entrance to the Humber . This regular forma tion, proclaiming the uniform lack of serious resistance to the inroads of the sea, is due to the fact that the whole of this portion of Yorkshire d a is composed of boulder y, the deposit formed by glacial action back in the Pleistocene period when a great layer of ice covered the northern parts of England . p The eating away of the low cliffs of reddish a b rown clay of an average height of eighteen feet appears to have been going on without interruption for a considerable time, certainly for the last thousand l years and probably for much longer . Ca culations based on the records of Domesday and on old maps and plans give a loss of land along thirty four and a half miles at the rate of seven feet one inch yearly, the strip of Yorkshire cut away by the sea since 1 086 being well over a mile wide with the formidable total superficial area of acres . If the same process has been operating since the beginning of the Roman occupation of Britain , the loss may be increased to acres and the sea would have advanced two and a l ha f miles . H ull has often been given a bad name through ’ the existence of a thieves litany which says : F ro m H l H e a nd H a i a x ul , ll l f , G o o d L o rd d eli v er us ; but this merely proves that the town was so well administered that the vagabond found it desirable al l to keep away , and though Hu l makes no claim K I N G S T O W N - U P O N - H U L L 3 ri to be either a tou st or a health resort , it has features of much interest , including one of the finest churches in the county and many modern buildings which give its chief streets architectural dignity . In volume of foreign trade Hull takes the third place among the ports of Great Britain , and its ’ first dock (Queen s) was completed in 1 778. At n that time it was the largest in England . Since the several others have been built . The King George O 1 1 Dock , pened in 9 4, is one of the largest and best equipped in the United Kingdom . ounder Edward I . is often regarded as the f of u al al H ll, but though he did a great de for the 1 2 port when, in 93 , he bought it from the monks - - of Meaux and renamed it Kingstown upon Hull , yet it is quite an error to call him the founder . Hull was a busy port called Wyke- upon- Hull long before Edward was born . The records of the - customs receipts on wool, rough sheep skins, and l 20 1 20 0 leather between Ju y , 3 , and November 3 , 1 20 S 5, how that this port was doing a trade in these commodities not far Short of hal f that of - London , or one fourteenth of the whole wool and i leather trade of England .