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The Rivers of Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial: Rivers of the East Coast
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CHAPTER II.--THE DOVE.--What's in the Name--Axe Edge and
Dove Head--The Monogram--Glutton Mill--Hartington--Beresford
Dale--Pike Pool--Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton--Beresford
Hall--Dove Dale--Its Associations--Ilam--The
Manifold--Ashbourne--Doveridge--Uttoxeter--Sudbury--Tutbury--The
Confluence 240
_By CANON BONNEY._
CHAPTER III.--THE TRENT, FROM NEWTON SOLNEY TO THE DERWENT.--Newton
Solney--Repton: the School and the Church--Swarkestone: its
Bridge and its Church--Chellaston--Donington Park and Castle
Donington--Cavendish Bridge 251
_By EDWARD BRADBURY._
CHAPTER IV.--THE DERWENT.--The Derwent in its Infancy--Derwent
Chapel and Hall--Hathersage--Eyam--Grindleford
Bridge--Chatsworth--The "Peacock" at Rowsley--Haddon Hall--The
Wye and the Lathkill--Darley Dale and its Yew-tree--The Sycamores
of Oker Hill--The Matlocks and High Tor--Cromford and Willersley
Castle--Ambergate--Belper--Derby--Elvaston 257
_By CANON BONNEY._
CHAPTER V.--THE TRENT, FROM THE DERWENT TO THE HUMBER.--The
Soar--Trent Junction--The Erewash--Gotham and its Wise Men--Clifton
Hall and Grove--Nottingham and its History--Colwich Hall and Mary
Chaworth--Sherwood Forest--Newark--Gainsborough--Axholme--The
Confluence with the Humber 277
_By W. S. CAMERON._
CHAPTER VI.--THE WHARFE.--General Characteristics--The
Skirfare--Langstrothdale--Kettlewell--Dowkabottom
Cave--Coniston and its Neighbourhood--Rylstone and the
Nortons--Burnsall--Appletreewick: an Eccentric Parson--Simon's
Seat--Barden Tower and the Cliffords--The "Strid"--Bolton Abbey and
Bolton Hall--The Bridge--Ilkley--Denton and the Fairfaxes--Farnley
Hall and Turner--Otley--Harewood--Towton Field--Kirkby
Wharfe--Bolton Percy 292
_By W. S. CAMERON._
CHAPTER VII.--THE OUSE.--The Ure and the Swale--Myton and
the "White Battle"--Nun Monckton, Overton, and Skelton--The
Nidd--York--Bishopthorpe--Selby--The Derwent--The
Aire--Howden--Goole--The Don 310
_By W. S. CAMERON._
CHAPTER VIII.--THE ESTUARY.--Drainage and Navigation--Dimensions
of the Humber--The Ferribys--Barton-upon-Humber--Hull--Paull--Sunk
Island--Spurn Point--Great Grimsby--Places of Call 320
THE RIVERS OF THE WASH.--_By CANON BONNEY._
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