FROM EDENVAL E TO THE PLAINS OF YORK: OR , A THOUSAND MILES IN THE VALLEYS OF THE NIDD AND YORE . OLD YORK From a Sketch taken 5o years ago . BY EDMUND BOGG, Author of " Nidderdale and the Vale of the Nidd," " A Thousand Niles in Wharfedale," &'c. Member of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, & c. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH UPWARDS OF 200 SPECIALLY DESIGNED PICTURES, By Gilbert Foster, Percy Robinson, Albert Haselgrave, Frank Dean, Owen Bowen, Edmund Fogg, and others . LEEDS : EDMUND BOGG, 3, WOODHOUSE LANE. YORK : JOHN SAMPSON, CONEY STREET . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. PAGE. CHAPTER IV.— Continued. PAGE. A brief description of the interesting places in Richard Harrison ; TOCKWITH Village ; Mt . the vales of the Yore and the Nidd . .. 1 to6 TON and SINNINGTHWAITE ; Bilton Church, &c . ; Its ancient features ; Skewkirk Ferry; CHAPTER II. KIRK HAMMERTON ; The old Saxon Church; GREEN HAMMErTON ; A Village Feast; A Retrospective Sketch ; The Brigantes; Original Characters ; The Upland Country 42 to 5 2 Druidism ; Queen Cartismandau ; Carac- tacus, 'a prisoner, is taken to Rome ; Th e CHAPTER V. subjection of the Brigantes by Rome ; The invasion of the Saxons and the dispersion The OUSEBUrN Villages : A vivid description of the old Celtic race ; Gregory the Great of bygone times .. 53 to 64 and the tale of the Slave Market ; The conversion of Saxons by the Romish Church; CHAPTER VI. Edwin, Prince of Deira ; The destruction of the Heathen Gods, Woden and Thor, and th e WHIXLEY ; Christopher Tancred, his curious Baptism of the Angles by Paulinus in the will, &c . ; The Church ; ALLErTON ; The Swale and the Yore ; The Battle of Heath- Mauleverers ; The Hall ; The Church and field and death of Edwin ; Winwoed Field Tombs of the Mauleverers ; The Vale and the death of Penda ; Noble and shining of Yolk, &c . ; Thornville Hall, formerly lights in the Saxon Church ; The invasion the abode of Colonel Thornton ; Famous of the Danes and capture of York ; Rule i n Race on Knavesmire ; Tale of the Miller, Northumbria ; Harold of Westfold : a tra- &c. ; HUNSINGORE ; A Parson in the Stocks; dition ; Siward the Jarl : a dramatic death COWTHORPE Oak ; Anecdotes of the Village scene ; Troubles in Northumbria during the and Church ; Guy Fawkes ; INGMANTHORPE; rule of Tosti ; Is expelled, &c . ; Unfurls the A Submerged Forest ; Farmer Smith's old Viking standard ; Joins Hardrada ; Invades Grey Mare . .. .. .. 65 to 75 Northumbria ; The Battle of Stamford Bridge ; Hardrada and Tosti are slain and CHAPTER VII. the Norwegian fleet dispersed ; The conquest of England by the Normans ; Battle of The CRIMPLE Country ; ALMES CLIFF Hastings and death of Harold ; The Rebellion ; Harry Buck the Wise Man ; BRACKENTHWAITE ; of the Anglo-Danish people in Northumbria; King Charles, &c. ; PANNAL ; A rural Capture of York and re-capture by the Village ; Description of the Church ; Pannal Normans ; Retaliation and devastation of Hall and the Tancreds ; FOLLIFOOT ;A ; Uprearing Village Picture ; SPOFFORTH Its early Northumbria by the conquerors History ; The Wars of the Percys : Otter- of mighty strongholds ; Death scene and burn and Shrewsbury ; Death of Hotspur burial of the Norman King . .. .. 7 to 32 and capture of Douglas ; Battle of Bramham Moor ; Defeat of the Rebels ; A Percy slain CHAPTER III. by the mob at Topcliffe ; Spofforth Castle NUNMONKTON : Its origin ; The Church of St. and the Church, &c . ; Blind Jack's Grave; Mary ; The village and neighbourhood ; NORTH DEIGHTON ; A June Eve ; Ancient NEWTON-ON-OUSE ; BENINBROUG H ; In the Burial Mounds ; KIRK DEIGHTON ; A scene Ainsty Country ; The Red House : a des- of beauty ; The Church ; The Tomb of criptive sketch ; Moor MONKTON ;A Merleswyn and the De Ross Family ... 76 to 90 Thunderstorm ; MArSTON Village, &c. 33 to 41 CHAPTER VIII . CHAPTER IV . RIBSTONE ; A description of the Knight Marston Fight ; General description ; Flight an d Templars ; Charles Brandon ; Th chase of a Cavalier bearing the news to th e iche;. The Andrew's; Church Family of St e Goodr Garrison of Knaresborough ; Safe arrival Goldsborough Hall ; The Huttons, the and death of his steed ; Wilstrop Hall and Byerleys and Lascelles' ; The Church and vi, CHAPTER VIII .—Continued. PAGE. CHAPTER- X .—Continued. PAGE . Tombs of the Templars ; Goldsborough The Graveyard ; A Riverside Picture ; CLINT Mill ; Grimbald Bridge ; St . Robert's Cave; and the Swale Family ; BURNT YATES and Birkham Deeps and Grimbalds Craggs; DARLEY ; CINDER HILLS ; Stumps Lane ; A MPTON;PLU Anecdote of Gilbert de Plump- Foul Murder ; A Story of Civil War; ton ; The Artist's Model, an original Darley Beck and Padside Hall ; Tradition character ; Abbey House ; Simpson's Cave of a Knight of the Ingleby Family ; Upper and St. Robert's Chapel . .,. 91 to 101 Nidderdale in general; A Sketch by W . H. Daykin 126 to 158 CHAPTER IX, CHAPTER XI. KNARESBOROUGH ; A Retrospective Sketch ; Eustace Fitz John and Hubert De Burgh; BRIMHAM ROCKS ; FELL BECK ; Tales of Bar- Richard, Earl of Cornwall ; The legend of guests and other Eerie Forms ; Ancient "Old Town Bay" ; Edmund Plantagenet; House ; Fell Beck and SMELTHOUSE; Piers Gaveston ; A Scottish Raid ; Edward WILSILL, BISHOPSIDE and BEWERLEY 159 to 16 3 III. and his good Queen Phillippa ; The days of Chivalry ; The Civil War ; Knaresborough in a state of Siege ; The Surrender ; A Story CHAPTER XII. of the Siege ; Description of the Castle; PATELEY BRIDGE : Brief Description ; The The Church of Saint John ; The Slingsby Nidderdale Rant, etc. ; The Renowned Chapel and the Slingsbys ; A Melancholy Brothers Sinclair ; The Pates ; Bewerley Accident ; E. Hargrove ; The Historian's Hall and the Yorke Family ; Fishpond Grave ; Tale of Cromwell ; Sketch of old Wood ; RAVENSGILL, Raven's Nest, and Knaresborough ; Saint Robert ; Mothe r Bewerley Moors ; The Sabbath Bells; Shipton ; Eugene Aram and Blind Jack, GUYSCLIFFE ; The Folly and Tarn ; CASTLE- etc.; Scriven Hall ; SCOTTON Village ; The STEAD ; Eagle Hall ; GREENHOW HILL; be Brus Family ; The home of Guido Stump Cross Caverns and Trollers Gill; Fawkes ; Scotton Banks ; Nidd Hall ; Bilton Old World Customs and Beliefs still existing Fields and Conyngham House ; The Nidd at in the Dales ; FOUNTAINS EARTH, STONEBEC K Bilton Banks ; A Sunset Scene .. 102 to 125 DOWN, and STONEBECK UP ; WATH Wood and Waterfall ; Pack Horse Bridge ; A Funeral Procession ; SIGSWORTH and ROBIN HOOD; CHAPTER X. A Moorland Tramp ; Merry field Glen; HARROGATE : A Descriptive Sketch ; A Royal HEATHFIELD ; Gowthwaite Hall ; The Com- Wedding Day ; An Ancient Forest ; Celtic, pensation Reservoir ; RAMSGILL and Eugene Roman, and Saxon Occupation ; William the Aram ; LoFTHOUSE ; Story of John Imeson; Conqueror and the Red King ; The Outlaws; HOWSTEAN Gorge and Tom Taylor's chamber; Robin Hood ; A Sketch of Forest Life; A hoard of Coins ; BLAYSHAW BENTS ; MID- Haverah Park, origin of its name ;A DLESMOOR ; A Scene from the Graveyard; Legend ; The Destruction of the Forest; Dead Man 's Hill and the Missing Pedlars; The gradual uprearing of a Beautiful Town; Stanzas to the Nidd, by W . C. Rushton 164 to 184 The Medicinal Springs ; Harrogate at the beginning of the present Century ; Magni- CHAPTER XIII. ficent Scene from Harlow's Hill ; The Nidd as a fishing ground ; Fishing Tales ; The A Rambler 's Reminiscences of Upper Nidderdale, Landlord Outwitted ; KILLINGHALL ; Leaven by J. T. Lowe . .. .. ' . 185 to 191 Hall ; Ripley Bridge and the old Water Mill ; A Summer Idyll ; The Village of RIPLEY ; A Legend of Ancient Days ; Oliver CHAPTER XIV. Cromwell and Dame Ingleby ; Sir George Ripley ; The Castle and Church of All The Source of the Rivers ; A Wild Tramp; Saints ; The Ingleby Chapel and Tombs of Shaw Paddocks ; Amongst the wild hills; the Inglebys ; Ancient Weeping Cross, etc .; The Devil's Bridge ; HELL GILL ; A famous BISHOP THOrNTON ; Brimham Lodge and leap ; Caught in a mountain Storm ; The Sir Richard Gresham ; Brimham Hall; Summit of High Seat ; A magnificent Thornton Beck and Shaw Mills, and forward prospect ; The Shepherd Lord ; Source to the river again ; HAMPSTHWAITE ; The of the Eden, Swale, and the Yore; Church and its Associations ; Blind Peter; The first bridge ; LUNDS and its Primitive Village Life half a Century ago ; William Church ; The Dalesman's Story A glorious Makepeace Thackeray ; Tang Beck ;A Sunset ; Mossdale, COTTERDALE, Widdale, Footpath by the Nidd ; BIRSTwITH Village; and Shunner Fell ; Cotter Force ; HArDRAW The Beautiful Sanctuary ; A Symphony; Force and the adjoining woodland . 192 to 202 CHAPTER XV. PAGE. CHAPTER XVII.—Continued. PAGE . Round about Hawes, by Chas. Wilkinson; Ancient Stronghold ; The Church of the HAWES : Brief description ; Buttertubs Blessed Virgin and St. Alkeda ; Tomb of the Pass ; MUKER-ON-SWALE ; Hardraw Falls; Martyred Lady ; Memorial of Robert Cotter Foss and Mossdale . .. 203 to 208 Thornton, 22nd Abbot of Jervaulx ; Mid- dleham Moor Fair ; COVERDALE ; Braith- waite Hall ; A Solitary Wayfarer ; Coverham CHAPTER XVI . Bridge ; Ruins of Coverham Abbey ; Cover- BAINBRIDGE : Memoir of old Forest Days ; The ham Church ; " Lady Bab " ; An Interesting Horn Blower ; SEMMERDALE and SEMMER- Companion ; Homes of Famous Trainers; WATER ; ADDLEBROUGH ; COUNTERSETT,a Birds Ridding ; A Sequestered Dell ; The charming old Hamlet ; A Legend of Semmer- Old Water Mill ; CARLTON ; HORSE HOUS E water ; Carr End ; Thwaite End ; Raydale and BRADLEY ; WEST SCRAFTON ; A Magnifi- House and its Ghost Stories ; Stalling Busk cent Gorge ; A Pretty Glen ; The Thunder- and Bardale Beck ;