l82 baker's north YORKSHIRE. 



Opposite the north-west corner of Kildale Moor is the 

 singular hill called Roseberry Topping. It is a rounded knoll 

 of hill, sharply insulated from the main mass of the moorland, 

 standing boldly out against the level country, and forming a 

 conspicuous object from the surrounding plain and the valley 

 far away. It is capped with a crag of Oolitic Sandstone and 

 attains an elevation of 1057 feet. In hedges at the little village 

 of Newton, which lies immediately beneath it, and 700 feet 

 below its summit, Rosa hibernica grows. From Kildale Moor 

 the basaltic dike passes on the south side of Roseberry Topping, 

 and underlies a wooded ridge about 200 yards in height behind 

 the village of Great Ayton, from which point it declines west- 

 ward past Langbargh till it is lost beneath the New Red Sand- 

 stone of the Central Valley. Above Ayton it is called Cliff Rigg, 

 above Langbargh, Langbargh Rigg. In two or three places by 

 the side of the stream near Ayton are bushes of Salix acutifolia. 

 The following are the rarer plants of the woods and fields of the 

 basaltic dike in this vicinity : 



Viola hirta 

 Medicago maculata 

 Trifolium striatum 

 SpircEa Filipendula 

 Rulms mucronatus 

 Rosa gracilis 

 Poterium Sanguisorba 

 Sediim anglician 



Scabiosa Cohimbaria 

 Tragopogon porrifolius 

 Campanula Rapunculus 

 Lamium Galeobdolon 

 Narcissus pseudo-naixissus 

 Allium Scorodoprasum 



Hedwida ciliata. 



Not far from the western edge of the Lias there is an insulated 

 mass of hill, called Eston Nab, which is capped with Oolitic 

 Sandstone, and attains an altitude of 800 feet. It immediately 

 overlooks the Tees estuary, and the Ironstone beds of the Lias 

 are worked largely upon its sea-ward slope. The two branches 

 of the Leven the course of which we have been tracing unite 

 near the town of Stokesley, and the stream flows with many 

 windings in a north-western direction past Hutton Rudby and 

 Hilton through the Central Valley portion of the district and 

 falls into the Tees between Yarm and Stockton. 



