2o4 BAKERS NORTH YORKSHIRE. 



looks the great Central Vale. Bilsdale is a fine deep dale with 

 high peaks between the ramified glens which branch firom it at 

 its northern extremity, and has its sides crested in some places 

 by edges of fi-eestone. Snilesworth, the western glen, is a broad, 

 much branched, undulated hollow, which is separated only by a 

 high ridge firom the low country which sweeps round the edge 

 of this moorland tract. Between Snilesworth and Bilsdale there 

 is a narrow heathery glen, which is called Ladhill gill ; and at 

 Hawnby the three streams unite together to form the main 

 branch of the Rye. The following are the more interesting 

 plants of these three last-mentioned dales ; 



Barharea intermedia 

 Rubus plicatus 



,, thyrsoideus 



,, mucronatus 



„ Bloxami 



,, hirtus 



,, rosaceus 

 Epilohium angiistifolium 

 Vacciniiwi Oxycoccus 

 Juniperus communis 

 Eriophorum latifolium 

 AUosoriis crispus 



Dicranum fuscescens 



Didymodon flexifolius 

 Hedwigia ciliata 

 Gritnmia trichophylla 

 Ptychomitrium polyphyllmn 

 Orthotrichum rivulare 

 Tetrodojitium Browniamim 

 Polytrichum commune var. 

 fastigiatum 

 Mniuin stellare 

 Fissidens pusillus 

 Heterocladium heteropteriim 

 Hypniim ochraceum 

 Hyocomium flagellare 

 Fontinalis squamosa. 



Opposite the bottom of Bilsdale on the east and due north of 

 Helmsley, the calcareous range attains 1078 feet. From Helmsley 

 in this direction runs up the pleasant sylvan glen which is 

 described in detail at page 58. From the point where its three 

 branches unite together, which is just ten miles distant from the 

 head of Bilsdale, the Rye flows in a southern direction down a 

 steep-banked, thickly-wooded dale, through the calcareous range, 

 past Rievaulx Abbey, and beneath Buncombe Park and Lord 

 Feversham's woods and hall to Helmsley, where it enters the 

 Vale of Pickering. The view from the Terrace at Rievaulx of 

 the ruins of the choir and refectory of the fine old Cistercian 

 abbey, and the cottages which surround it, and the branching 



