1881] JOURNAL— TOURS IN YORKSHIRE. 235 



Aug. 13. We went to the top of the Wrekin ; there is a fine 

 fortification there formed by two trenches and ditches at a long 

 distance from each other on one side, and one similar on the other ; 

 each with a strongly defended gateway. They entered across the 

 hill. 



Aug. 15. To Ilkley. 



Aug. 16. We went to see the Keltic stones in the churchyard. 



Aug. 20. We walked in the morning to HoUin Hall (a former 

 residence of the Heber family), which is now a small farm house. 



Aug. 27. To Bolton Abbey. We went past the Abbey at first 

 as far as the Strid; then walked along the path by the river to 

 Barden Tower, which is not of much interest, although beautifully 

 situated. We then walked back by the same way, nearly ; and on 

 to the Abbey. All this walk by the river was most beautiful^ 

 increased by the full state of the river, from the rain of the last 

 days. The Abbey Church is small, and not of much interest. We 

 then had lunch at the " Devonshire Arms " Hotel, and drove home 

 by the north side of the river, having had a most pleasant day. 



Sept. 5. I went by the Birley Wood road, and turned up to the 

 moor, searched for and found Langshaw Delves (an ancient British 

 village), where two or three stone beehive houses may be traced. 

 The whole is a long space enclosed by a bank, which may be a wall, 

 and covered with excavations for habitations. On my return, I 

 visited a spot called " Ancient Enclosures " on the map. There is 

 an old track leading to it, but little to be seen at it. 



Sept 8. To Barnard Castle. 



Sept. 9. To Middleton-in-Teesdale, to see the High Force fall 

 of the Tees. The fall was not very full, but fine. The rock sur- 

 rounding it, and the ravine, looked perhaps the finer from being 

 wet. 



Sept. 12. To the Castle in the morning; drove to Egglestone 

 Abbey, on to the Dairy Bridge at the junction of the Greta with the 

 Tees ; then to Wycliff'e, where the rector (the Rev. J. Erskine) shewed 

 us his church, and portrait of WyclifFe, and most kindly gave us 

 tea, although we were quite strangers to him. We returned by the 

 north side of the Tees. 



Sept. 13. To York. We attended the service in the Cathedral, 

 and then had tea with Canon Fleming, where we met Archdeacon 

 Hey. 



Sept. 14. To Helmsley, and drove to Rievaulx Abbey. 



Sept. 15. We spent the afternoon with the Backhouses, inspect- 

 ing his garden. He shewed me roots of Cineraria spathulifolia from 

 the northern exposures of the high ground south of Mickle Fell, 

 Teesdale. He found it there several years since, and did not know 

 what to make of it. 



