388 GILLIGAN : EFFECTS OF STORM OX BARDEN FELL. 
Embsay Fell. — Here the damage done was of a very serious 
nature, as some mills which are situated on Embsay Beck, and 
use the fall of tlie water as their motive power, were quite wrecked. 
At Millholme Mill the stream is carried beneath the buildings by 
a culvert, which proved quite inadequate on this occasion, and 
the water rose at the back of the mill to such a height as to 
force the end wall inwards, and make its way tlirough the mill, 
reaching a height of five feet, as shown by the mark on tlie wall 
(Plate LVII., Fig. 1). The mill is built upon Pendleside rocks, 
which dip upstream at an angle of 50°, and this no doubt 
proved a fortunate thing for the mill, as the water tore up the 
flagstones in the culvert, but could not remove the rock, as it 
lay, like the stones in a river bed, offering the least resistance 
to the onward rush of the water. At a spindle mill further 
up the same beck the water made its way through the back of 
the mill and pushed out the front wall (Plate LVII., Fig. 2). 
Still higher up the beck, and be^^ond the new Skipton Reservoir, 
the tributary streams I^oburn Gill and Moor Beck both give 
evidence of tlie destructive work of the storm (Plate LVL, 
Fig. 2, and Plate LVIIL, Figs. 1 and 2). 
The streams draining Rilstone and Cracoe Fells show the 
same phenomena as I have described, though the amount of 
debris carried was not so great. 
Similar Occurrexces ix Yorkshire. 
The first I can fuid mention of in this neighbourhood is 
that cited b}^ Phillips* as occurring in 1680 in Upper Wharfedale, 
when gravel and sand filled the houses up to the bedroom 
windows. 
The village of Langtoft, on the Wolds, was visited by a 
orreat storm in 1657, and a stone recording this storm, built 
into one of the houses, was laid bare by the adjoining 
house being carried away during the fiood of 1892. Storms 
have also been recorded in this neighbourliood in 1853 and 
1888.t 
* Rivers, -Mountains, and Sea Coa.st of Yorkshire, p. 7'J. 
t Waterspouts on the Yorkshire Wolds, by J. Dennis Hoocl. Driffield, 1892. 
