298 DAKYNS : THE GEOLOGY OF NIDDERDALE AND THE WASHBURN. 
An outlier of the Follifoot Grits occurs on Heathfield, Gouthwaite and 
Raygill House Moors, forming a bold escarpment along Henstone 
Band. A small outlier of the Lower Follifoot Grit occurs on Mengher. 
The various gills descending from the above-mentioned moors into 
Nidderdale are occupied by tongues of Kinder Scout Grit. 
On the north-east side of Nidderdale there is a regular succes- 
sion of beds from the Kinder Scout Grit to the bed lettered k in 
the list. This is the highest bed of Millstone Grit present in this 
part of the country. The greater portion of the country north and 
east of Pateley Bridge is occupied by the beds h and g, the latter 
having as many as five sub-divisions. 
As the country south of the Craven Fault is much complicated 
by the fact of the beds forming a series of rolls, it will be as well to 
point out the position and direction of the anticlinal and synclinal 
axes. We have then firstly the broken anticlinal of Greenhow Hill, 
which running across Appletreewick Pasture and north of Burnsall 
is continued to the south-west across the limestone hills, Elbolton 
and Butter Haw. This is succeeded on the south by a synclinal 
trough, which runs from Wilsill near Pateley Bridge in a roughly 
parallel direction, north of Pockstones by Skyreholme to the Wharfe. 
This is succeeded by the Simonseat anticlinal, which runs out of the 
great Beamsley anticlinal a mile north of Dacre Banks. It runs 
roughly parallel to the other axes by Palley Crags and Pockstones to 
Simonseat, where the beds bend round in a gable. This is succeeded 
by a synclinal, which, starting from the same part of Nidderdale, 
runs south-west across Whitmoor to Kex Gill. This is succeeded by 
the Beamsley anticlinal. This important axis may be considered the 
continuation of the Skibeden anticlinal after a broken fashion. It 
runs a little north of the beacon across the moor to Round Hill, 
and thence crossing the outcrops of the Kinder Scout Grit in the 
Washburn it runs through Thornthwaite a mile west of Dacre, 
crosses Nidderdale a mile above Dacre Banks, and thence by the 
Brimham Rocks across the moor by Sawley to Aldfield, where it 
runs under the Permian. It is succeeded on the east by a synclinal 
running along Darley Beck, and this by an anticlinal which running 
along Delves Ridge crosses the Nidd at New Bridge above Birstwith 
