l^orksbire flatutalists' IHnion^ 



1P»resi&ent : 



HENRY EELES DRESSER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., London. 



1bon» Secretaries : 



Wm. DENISON roebuck, F.L.S., Sunny Bank, Leeds. 

 Rev. E. p. KNUBLEY, M.A., Staveley Rectory, Leeds. 



THE EIGHTIETH MEETING- 



WILL BE HELD AT 

 FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF 



RUDDING & PLUMPTON PARKS, 

 On SATURDAY, JULY 13tli, 1889. 



Railway Arrangements. 



Through return tickets at pleasure party fares will be issued at all Yorkshire 

 stations on the G. N., H. & B., L. & Y., L. & N. W., M. S. & L., Mid., and N. E. 

 Railways, which have booking arrangements for Ilarrogate, to Members and 

 Associates of the Y.N.U. producing their signed card of Membership. 



Members and Associates starting from stations which have not through booking 

 arrangements, should liook to the most convenient junction, and re-book to their 

 destination ; the reduction of fare will be granted for both portions of the journey. 



Routes. 



Permission is kindly granted by Sir P. Radclifte, Bart., for his 

 estates to be visited, 



I. Members leave Harrogate Station at 11-20 a.m. for Hookstone 

 Wood, Crimple Valley, Rudding Park, and Plumpton Rocks — a walk 

 of about four miles. Returning by conveyance at 4-15 p.m. 



This party will be in charge of Messrs. John Farrah, Riley Fortune, 

 John Naughton, &c. 



II. (Geological only). Leaves Nidd Bridge Station at 11-57, walk 

 via Ripley to Hampsthwaite and Clint, and thence^to Harrogate — 

 about eight miles' walk. 



Books and Maps. 



The whole district is comprised in Sheet 93 N.W. of the One-inch 

 (also published geologically coloured) and sheets 171 and 154 of the 

 Six-inch Ordnance Maps. 



Physical Geography and Geology. 



Mr. Grainge in his 'History and Topography of Harrogate and the 

 Forest of Knaresborough ' says : — The physical aspect of this district 

 is generally that of a region of undulations, a series of hills and valleys, 

 rounded and smoothed by the action of water. The geological forma- 

 tion is, generally speaking, that of the upper millstone grit, which is 

 prominently developed at Plumpton, near Brame Hall ; whilst at 



