CiRC. 165. 



N.B. — The Railway Booking Clerks will only grant these reduced 

 fares to Members and Associates producing a Special Certificate signed by 

 the Secretary of the Union (except at Stations on the North-Eastern line, 

 where production of Card of Membership is sufficient). Members and 

 Associates w^ishing for this Certificate must apply to Mr. Hawkesworth 

 for it at least two days before the date of the excursion, and MUST 

 ENCLOSE a stamped directed envelope and their current card of member- 

 ship of the Union, w^hich latter v/illbe returned with the Certificate. In case 

 of no through booking Members must apply for an additional Certificate. 



PERMISSION has been kindly granted by Lord Middleton to go over his 

 •estate. Members must take great care not to disturb anything, and, in accordance 

 with the policy of the Union, they must not take the roots of ferns or rare plants. 



BOOKS AND MAPS. — The whole district for investigation is comprised 

 ■within Sheet 63 (old series 93 N.E.) of the Ordnance Survey Map, which is pub- 

 lished coloured for both drift and solid geology. 



WEEK-END ARRANGEMENTS.— Members desirous of spending the 

 week-end in the neighbourhood will find suitable accommodation at the Queen's 

 Head Hctel, North Grimston. 



ROUTES.— 



I. — Geologists, conducted by Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A-, F.G.S., will start 

 from Burdale Station on the arrival of the 11-12 a.m. train and proceed by 

 Thixendale to Aldro and Birdsall Brow. 



II. — Naturalists, conducted by Messrs. M. B. Slater, F. L. S., J. Eraser, and 

 other memliers of the Malton Naturalists' Society, Will start from North 

 Grimston Station on arrival of il-i a.m. train, and walk to Leys Wood 

 (about one mile), thence to Birdsall Woods, Birdsall Park, the Lanes, 

 Gardens, Old and New Church, and Langhill Woods (distance optional)- 



THE DISTRICT.— Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., E.G.S., writes:— The 

 area to he visited lies between the modern course of the Derwent and the northern 

 ■escarpment of the Chalk Wolds. It embraces every variety of soil and scenery. 

 There are sands and grits, stiff and loamy clays, and many kinds of limestones, all 

 grouped close together, suitable for many different forms of vegetable life. There 

 are breezy uplands and quiet sheltered sunny nooks, varying from 775 feet to only 

 60 feet above sea-level, while the whole is well watered by numerous springs bursting 

 out at the base of the chalk. From the top of the Wolds, dotted over with tumuli 

 and encircled with entrenchments of pre-historic tribes, one of the grandest views in 

 Yorkshire can be obtained, stretching from Seamer Moor on the extreme east, round 

 by the Tabular Hills to Black Hambledon with the Howardian range in front, and 

 then, continuing westwards, from Ripon to Rumbold's Moor, Selby and Goole, 

 with York Minster in the centre. On a clear fine day it is indeed a marvellous 

 scene. Across the district through I.,angton and Burythorpe to Leavening Brow 

 ran the old British track from Malton to Brough along the edge of the Wolds, 

 through Millington, Warter, Londesborough, etc., utilized afterwards, no doubt, by 

 the Romans. At the western end stand the still beautiful ruins of Kirkham Abbey ; 

 in the centre the classic training-ground of Langton Wold ; at the east the old 

 church of North Grimston, celebrated for its magnificent Norman font, and for the 

 statue of its patron saint, S. Nicholas, on the west side of the tower, one of ihe 

 only six remaining Norman statues in England. On a spur of Calcareous Grit, near 

 Burythorpe, i^rojecting as a nab from underneath the Chalk escarpment, stood the 

 old castle of Nigel Fossard, the principal sub-tenant of the great Earl of Mortain, 

 half-lirother to the Conqueror, who owned all the manors hereabout, with the 

 exception of Birdsall, Burythorpe, Eddlethorpe and Firby, which belonged to 

 Robert Bruce. 



