284 Re'poTt of Meetings for 1891. By Dr J. Hardy. 



Hill Camp on the left, athwart the Hart for this Loaning. The 

 grassy aspect of the country continued, and the land was of 

 poorer quality. By the wayside were several Grey Willows 

 [Salix cinerea), and the glittering Salix pentandra^ (B^y Willow), 

 symptomatic of moisture. The view upwards reached to 

 Netherwitton and Hothley. Hartburn Grange, Mr Gow's new 

 cottage, and Scots Gap were the next "stages," till Cambo was 

 reached, a place conspicuous from afar, by the aspiring new tower 

 to its very modern church. Before reaching it, Hartington, 

 Rotliley, (again), and Gallows Hill became visible behind a 

 leafy screen of trees, and extended richer looking meadows. 

 Elf -Hills and Fawns lie also near Cambo, the former at least 

 by name, associated with the popular belief in Fairies*' ; the 

 latter, once called " Le Fawings," perhaps connected with a 

 fenny district, or white fenny spots on a moorish soil. The 

 French /o?« hay appears to be connected with the A.S. faen, femi, 

 feon, palus, see Jamieson, s.v. Fawn. Greenleighton and Har- 

 wood Moor are to the northward of Hartinj^ton, all promising 

 botanical ground. Catcherside, where Linnaea horealis grows, is 

 also within the Cambo circuit. 



The road now leads straight down the hill amidst its 

 thickened avenue of tall beeches, now in their fullest foliage, to 

 the gates of the approach to VVallington Hall. The predom- 

 inance of beech in the woods is said to be owing to an expected 

 use of the timber fur laying tramways, a project which was 

 never realised. Much Saxifraga rotundifolia has been planted 

 out, and luxuriates even under the shadow, thus contradicting 

 the popular belief expressed in Campbell's lines. — 

 " Though bush or floweret never grow, 

 My dark un warming shade below." 



After experiencing a long drive, and a search for something 

 satisfactory to rest the eyes upon, the mansion comes out as a 

 revelation. It is built of excellent white sandstone, and 

 although wanting some of the graces of modern architecture, 

 shows few traces of time's decaying fingers. In the reign of 



* In tlie Carboniferous limestone of the Elf -hills, in the bed called the 

 'four-fathom limestone,' anew Foraminifer, Saccammina Carteri, was dis- 

 covered by Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, in 1871. It is described by Mr II. 

 B. Brady, F.R.S., in the Nat. Hist. Trans, of Northd. and Durham, vol. 

 iv., pp. 269-279 and figured in Plates IX., XI. 



