228 APPENDIX C : STRATIFICATION OF HACKNESS HILLS 
The GoRNBRASH is a thin hard limestone rock recognised only in 
four places around Hackness Island, at one of which in the bed of the 
Derwent at Langdale bridge it became a ford. It lies neai the bottom 
of the Hackness rock and nowhere appears to diverge from it. It also 
forms a ford in a moorland beck about a mile and a half west of Lasting- 
ham which village like most other sites of habitation at the foot of the 
Tabular Hills is upon top of the Hackness rock. 
Hackness Hall and the village of Everley are upon that stratum 
called the Kelloways or Hackness Kock, but the modern cottages at 
Hackness and Mowthorpe Farm are injudiciously placed below it. 
The bye road from Everley to Scalby Nabs follows its track to those 
farm houses which stand upon it. 
It crosses the new road up Hey hill at the first steep place, ranges 
the hill sides to Mr. Williams's house and below Comboats diverges 
fi'om the higher ranges of rocks southward round a secondary promi- 
nence and returns to and follows the road by the three Underbrow farms, 
and follows that bye road to William Pashby's house, which stands 
upon it. At this place a well '30 feet deep is sunk through the rock. 
Two other little farm houses on the north side of the Tabular hills stand 
on Nabs or projections of this rock some of which more remarkable 
points are the site of Barnscliff Cottage. This seems to be the greatest 
elevation of the rock from whence we look down on that great wood 
and the Derwent rolling below at the foot of Langdale rig wbich is 
foinied of coirespondinsj rocks terminated by the singularly conical 
hill ot Oxford clay called the " Sugar Loaf." Through Barnscliff the 
Hackness rock, tiaceable by its dry soil and casual protuberancy comes 
to the junction of roads from Broxa and Langdale End where it slopes 
down with the lane to the verge of the river which in ancient times was 
a further inducement to ford the river upon the solid floor of the Corn- 
brash rock. From hence the dry soil over the Hackness rock becomes 
the road to Hackness. This reck skirts the cow pasture in the bank 
at the back of the cottages and the Inn to the rise in the road which 
from the redness thereof has been called " red brow" and thence through 
the wood by the road to the great quarry. It branches up the bottom 
of the valley to the great spring at the water house and forms so much 
of the brows on each side of the road to the Hall as lies below the Springs. 
In the same manner it is traceable up Longfield valley in the beck and 
under the dry soil and steep banks on each side thereof to Low-dale, 
High -dale and Whisperdale farmhouses. The dry soil over ^his rock on 
