Visitors from Huddersfield may also take a ’bus from Catherine Street, 
Elland (Ripponden and District), starting five minutes to every hour. 
This, however, is: only suitable for the afternoon excursion as it runs straight 
to Ripponden. 
Members may travel to the Triangle by tramcar from Halifax or by ’bus 
from King Edward Street, Halifax (every 20 minutes, 10 minutes past the 
hour, etc. ) . Trams do not run past the Triangle, so visitors for the afternoon 
excursion should take the ’bus direct to Ripponden. 
’Buses run back from the Derby to Halifax 17 minutes past the hour 
(Ripponden and District) and every hour (North-Western and Yorkshire). 
From Rish worth there is a 20 minutes’ service. 
ROUTES. — The morning party will meet at 10 a.m. at the Triangle 
tram terminus. Under the leadership of Mr. E. Hallowell they will walk 
along the road for some distance and then spend some time on the right 
bank of the river, working up-stream towards Ripponden. They will join 
the afternoon party after lunch. 
The afternoon party will meet at 2 p.m. at Ripponden ’Bus stop (at 
the junction of the Manchester and Rochdale roads). Mr. J. H. Priestley 
will lead the party up Turner Clough and over the moors to the Derby, 
where tea may be obtained . (Ham and egg teas 2 /6 ; beef and boiled ham 
teas 1/9; plain teas iod.) 
MEETING. — A General Meeting will be held at Headquarters at 
6 p.m. for the election of members and other business. 
BOOKS AND MAPS. — Mr. J. H. Lumb, Secretary of the Halifax 
Scientific Society, sends the following list of books on the district : — ‘ The 
Halifax Naturalist ’ (Crump and Crossland), ‘ The Flora of Halifax ’ 
(Crump and Crossland), ‘West Yorkshire ’ (Davis, and Lees), ‘Flora of 
West Yorkshire ’ (Lees), ‘ Botanical Map of Leeds and Halifax District ’ 
(Smith and Moss) , ‘ The Country around Hudderfield and Halifax ’ (Geo- 
logical Survey). Mr. J. H. Priestley has written a ‘ History of Ripponden.’ 
Sheet No. 77 of the Ordnance Survey and the same Sheet No. of the 
Geological Survey Map portray the district. 
THE DISTRICT.— Mr. J. H. Priestley writes The Ryburn Valley, 
embedded in the heart of the Pennines, is without doubt one of the prettiest 
valleys in the West Riding. Ryburn, Rybourne, Ribbonden or Ripponden 
has a very ancient history written in stone and flood. Rhy is British for a 
ford, bourne is a river, and dean, dene, or den is a Teutonic word for a deep, 
wooded valley. The gateway to the valley is at Sowerby Bridge, where 
the Ryburn loses itself into the Calder. The road was one of the earliest 
turnpikes in the country and runs between an avenue of beech, birch, elm 
and sycamore, with not a few limes. 
Ripponden, a little over a hundred years ago, was the cluster of houses 
round the church, which was said to be the fifth building. The old Waterloo 
Bridge is interesting, though we cannot say when it was built. Over it, 
however, went Daniel Defoe on his way to Halifax, after crossing Blackstone 
Edge. 
An interesting walk leads along Ox Grains river till it buries itself in 
Turner Woods. Then one may mount the hillside and gain some remarkable 
sights of the woods and ravine, or turn by Rishworth Mills, once the site of 
many small Avater Avheels and corn mills owned by John Wheelwright. 
Pike End Hill, 1080 ft. high, refuses to be unnoticed, and as Ave turn 
down the slope by Cockroft, a typical sixteenth century farmhouse, Manshead 
towers in the distance, 1368 ft. 
GEOLOGY. — Mr. C. J. Spencer Avrites : — Many of the Avestern tributaries 
of the Calder seem to run in lengthy zig-zags with more or less right-angled 
bends. The Ryburn is a fairly typical example of this feature in the broad 
outlines of its course. The AA r hole valley is carved out of the Millstone 
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