In the village is a really beautiful old Tudor house of brick, with stone mullions, called Walcot Old Hall, the property of J. Goulton Constable, Esq. The little isolated bit of chalk wold which begins near Walcot is but four miles long, and in the centre of it is perched the village of _Burton-Stather_. The church stands on the very edge of the cliff, and a steep road leads down to the Staithe, a ferry landing stage, from which the village gets its name. Here, at a turn in the road, close to the village pump, still in universal use by the road side, we stopped to admire the wide and delightful view. The Trent was just below us. _Garthorpe_, where the other side of the ferry has its landing place, was in front, across the Trent lay the _Isle of Axholme_, green but featureless, and beyond it the sinuous Ouse, like a great gleaming snake, with the smoke of Goole rising up across the wide plain, and beyond the river, Howden tower; while, on a clear day, Selby Abbey and York Minster can be seen from the churchyard. We leave the village by an avenue of over-arching trees, and cross the Wold obliquely, passing Normanby Hall, the residence of Sir B. D. Sheffield, many of whose ancestors are buried in Burton-Stather church, and leaving the height, descend into a plain filled with smoke from the tall chimneys of the _Scunthorpe_ and _Frodingham_ iron furnaces. To come all at once on this recent industrial centre is a surprise after the bright clear atmosphere and keen air in which we have been revelling all day. But we soon leave the tall chimneys behind and find that the road divides; the left passing over to the “Cliff” at _Raventhorpe_ near _Broughton_ on the Ermine Street, and continuing south past _Manton_, where the black-headed gull, “_Larus Ridibundus_,” the commonest of all the gulls on the south coast of England, breeds on land belonging to Sir Sutton Nelthorpe of Scawby, to _Kirton in Lindsey_, and so by _Blyborough_, _Willoughton_, _Hemswell_, and _Harpswell_, to _Spital-on-the-Street_; and thence by _Glentworth_ and _Fillingham_ to Lincoln. Of these places _Blyborough_ is curiously dedicated to St. Alkmund, a Northumbrian Saint, to whom also is dedicated a church founded in the ninth century by the daughter of Alfred the Great in Shrewsbury. _Willoughton_ once had a preceptory of the Templars, founded in 1170.