l^orksblre IRaturalists' ITliuon. 



president : 



Prof. MICHAEL FOSTER, M.A., Sec.R.S., Cambridge. 



Ibon. Secretary: 



W. DENISON ROEBUCK, F.L.S., 259, Hyde Park Road, Leeds. 



Ibon. Secretary for tbis /Iftcetincj : 



HARRY SPEIGHT, Crownest Road, Bingley. 



THE 136th meeting 



WILL BE HELD AT 



FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF 



NGLEBOROUGH & BOWLAND KNOTTS, 



On SATURDAY, 14th MAY, 1898. 



RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.— Through return tickets at pleasure 

 party rates will be issued at all stations on the G. N., H.&B., L. &Y., L. &N.W., 

 Great Central, Midland, and N. E. Railways which have booking arrangements 

 for Clapham Station, to Members and Associates of the Y.N. U. producing their 

 signed card of Membership. Tickets taken on Friday or Saturday, 13th and 14th 

 ^iay, will be available for return any day up to Monday, i6th May. Where 

 through bookings are not in operation, Members may book to most convenient 

 junction, and re-book to destination, the reduced fares being available for each 

 stage of the journey. 



HOTEL ACCOMMODATION :— Owing to the very limited accommo- 

 dation, and the great demand for it, members should write and secure beds 

 at once. The Flying Horse Shoe, close to Clapham Station (postal address, Clap- 

 ham, Lancaster), will be head-quarters for members staying over the week-end. 



BOOKS AND MAPS.— The district is included in Sheets 97 S.W. (Ingle- 

 borough Hill) and 60 (92 N.W.) Clapham and Bowland Knotts, both of which are 

 to be had geologically coloured. There are no special works on the Clapham district 

 in particular, but it is included in the Settle and Ingleton lists. " Reference may be 

 made to Speight's 'Craven and North-West Yorkshire Highlands,' 1892; 

 Davis & Lees' 'West Yorkshire,' 1878; Balderston's 'Ingleton: Bygone and 

 Present,' n.d.; George H. Brown's 'On Foot round Settle.' (2/-) 1896; Dr. W. 

 Marshall Watts' 'School Flora,' 3 editions, 1878, 1879, & 1896. 



PERMISSION to visit their properties has been kindly granted by Mr. J- 

 A. Farrer and Mr. T. R. Clapham. 



THE DISTRICT. — Mr. Harry .Speight writes that the area of investigation 

 embraces a highly picturesque and romantic district comprised within the ancient 

 parish of Clapham at the Northern extremity of the West Riding. The small 

 village of Clapham is delightfully situated close to the fault which brings into 

 prominence the characteristic scenery of the great Scar Limestone, with its varied 

 animal and vegetable life. Prim and neat, yet rustic and retired, Clapham, with 

 its church, manor-house, and cross (where the now extinct markets were held by 

 charter granted in the time of King John) beside its prattling trout beck, is often 

 declared to be the prettiest village in Yorkshire. The summit of Ingleborough 

 (2,373 ft.) lies three miles from it to the north. East of the village is "Ingle- 

 borough " park, with mansion, the seat of Mr. James Anson Farrer, lord of the 

 manor. This extensive domain and the gills adjoining are well wooded, and some 



