Produced by Ted Garvin, Michael Lockey and PG Distributed Proofreaders. Illustrated HTML file produced by David Widger YORKSHIRE PAINTED AND DESCRIBED BY GORDON HOME Contents CHAPTER I ACROSS THE MOORS FROM PICKERING TO WHITBY CHAPTER II ALONG THE ESK VALLEY CHAPTER III THE COAST FROM WHITBY TO REDCAR CHAPTER IV THE COAST FROM WHITBY TO SCARBOROUGH CHAPTER V SCARBOROUGH CHAPTER VI WHITBY CHAPTER VII THE CLEVELAND HILLS CHAPTER VIII GUISBOROUGH AND THE SKELTON VALLEY CHAPTER IX FROM PICKERING TO RIEVAULX ABBEY CHAPTER X DESCRIBES THE DALE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE CHAPTER XI RICHMOND CHAPTER XII SWALEDALE CHAPTER XIII WENSLEYDALE CHAPTER XIV RIPON AND FOUNTAINS ABBEY CHAPTER XV KNARESBOROUGH AND HARROGATE CHAPTER XVI WHARFEDALE CHAPTER XVII SKIPTON, MALHAM AND GORDALE CHAPTER XVIII SETTLE AND THE INGLETON FELLS CHAPTER XIX CONCERNING THE WOLDS CHAPTER XX FROM FILEY TO SPURN HEAD CHAPTER XXI BEVERLEY CHAPTER XXII ALONG THE HUMBER CHAPTER XXIII THE DERWENT AND THE HOWARDIAN HILLS CHAPTER XXIV A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY OF YORK CHAPTER XXV THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICT INDEX List of Illustrations 1. York from the Central Tower of the Minster 2. Sleights Moor from Swart Houe Cross 3. An Autumn Scene on the Esk 4. Runswick Bay 5. Sunrise from Staithes Beck 6. Robin Hood's Bay 7. Whitby Abbey from the Cliffs 8. The Red Roofs of Whitby 9. An Autumn Day at Guisborough 10. The Skelton Valley 11. In Pickering Church 12. The Market-Place, Helmsley 13. Richmond Castle from the River 14. A Rugged View above Wensleydale 15. A Jacobean House at Askrigg 16. Aysgarth Force 17. View up Wensleydale from Leyburn Shawl 18. Ripon Minster from the South 19. Fountains Abbey 20. Knaresborough 21. Bolton Abbey, Wharfedale 22. Settle 23. Wind and Sunshine on the Wolds 24. Filey Brig 25. The Outermost Point of Flamborough Head 26. Hornsea Mere 27. The Market-Place, Beverley 28. Patrington Church 29. Coxwold Village 30. The West Front of the Church of Byland Abbey 31. Bootham Bar, York 32. Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds _Sketch Map_ YORKSHIRE CHAPTER I ACROSS THE MOORS FROM PICKERING TO WHITBY The ancient stone-built town of Pickering is to a great extent the gateway to the moors of North-eastern Yorkshire, for it stands at the foot of that formerly inaccessible gorge known as Newton Dale, and is the meeting-place of the four great roads running north, south, east, and west, as well as of railways going in the same directions. And this view of the little town is by no means original, for the strategic importance of the position was recognised at least as long ago as the days of the early Edwards, when the castle was built to command the approach to Newton Dale and to be a menace to the whole of the Vale of Pickering.