p6 baker's north YORKSHIRE. 



Head, ascends Semerdale to above the upper end of the lake, 

 ascends Bishopdale, Waldendale, and Coverdale to within a 

 short distance of their head-passes, coming out boldly towards 

 the Yore round the edge of the ridges which separate them, 

 and within a few miles of Masham it sweeps round Middleham 

 Moor and the Colsterdale hills to the Riding boundary. From 

 this line to the western margin of the county all the surface is 

 upwards of 300 yards in height. 



Of the arenaceous oolitic hills of the east the Middle Zone 

 includes a narrow ridge above Osmotherley and the summits of 

 Ingleby Bank and Swainby Bank just reach it. On the north 

 its boundary from Osmotherley Moor curves past the head of 

 Scugdale to Faceby Bank and Carlton Bank and from thence 

 runs down the edge of Bilsdale for some distance and curves 

 round the head of Snailesworth to Osmotherley Moor again. 

 Between the forks of Bilsdale it includes the peaks and from 

 Burton Head .embraces the ridge of watershed as far to the east 

 as Rosedale and Fryupdale, with lateral ridges stretching out 

 for some distance between the dales which open out towards 

 the south. East of this principal area the peak of Lilla Cross 

 just reaches it and the same may be said of Kildale Moor on 

 the north ; but of the wide extent of undulated country north 

 of the Esk only the two peaks of Roseberry Topping and 

 Danby Beacon and the ridge of Guisborough Moor are high 

 enough to reach unto it. 



Of the tabular calcareous hills of the east the Middle Zone 

 includes the plateau from Black Hambleton southward by way 

 of Kepwick Bank and Boltby Bank to Whitstoncliff and Rolston 

 Scar, with a width at the north end of the ridge of fully two 

 miles and extending eastward almost as far as the Rye. But 

 towards the south the ridge which reaches into it becomes 

 narrower and opposite Whitstoncliff is not more than a mile 

 wide, and east of this Hambleton plateau only just the summits 

 of Hawnby Hill and Easterside attain it. 



