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10 inches in length, and to 20 days, angling during the 

 season, for which he pays four guineas subscription and an 

 entrance fee of five guineas. There are 40 subscribing 

 members, under the presidency of the Rev. J. R. Hill, of 

 Thornton Hall, near Pickering, a thorough sportsman and 

 a county gentleman of the truest Yorkshire type. 



The Costa receives the Pickering Beck near Kirby 

 Misterton, and two or three miles below the united waters 

 are discharged into the Derwent J. H. Philips, Esq., of 

 Scarborough, is the honorary secretary, and it was mainly 

 through his exertions that the club was re-established some 

 four years ago. 



Derwent Anglers' Club. 



This Club preserves a stretch of water extending from 

 two miles below East and West Ayton, near Scarborough, 

 through the celebrated Forge Valley, thence past the highly 

 picturesque village of Hackness, the seat of Lord Derwent, 

 to Hill's Green Bridge at the entrance of " Barnescliffe," a 

 wild gorge of surpassing beauty, running up and forming 

 the eastern side of the lofty " Langdale Rigg," from the 

 summit of which there is a magnificent view of a large 

 expanse of country. On the east the cliffs of the sea coast, 

 with the baronial castle keep of Scarborough standing out 

 like a sentinel to guard that ancient borough and queen of 

 watering places — on the south are the Great Wolds, with 

 the bold promontories of Filey Brigg and Flamborough 

 Head forming striking objects, whilst on the west the eye 

 stretches away to Malton and the Howardean Hills, with 

 the Hambleton plateau in the far distance. On the north is 

 large expanse of moorland lying in the direction of Robin 

 Hood's Bay, and the Peak, flanked by the railway from 

 Pickering to Whitby, emerging from Newton Dale on to 



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