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YORKSHIRE COAST AND MOORLAND SCENES
Painted and Described
By
GORDON HOME
_Second Edition_
1907
_First Edition published April 26, 1904
Second Edition published April, 1907_
(Note: page 107, the beginning of Chapter VII.,
is missing from this edition.)
PREFACE
It may seem almost superfluous to explain that this book does not deal
with the whole of Yorkshire, for it would obviously be impossible to get
even a passing glimpse of such a great tract of country in a book of
this nature. But I have endeavoured to give my own impressions of much
of the beautiful coast-line, and also some idea of the character of the
moors and dales of the north-east portion of the county.
I have described the Dale Country in a companion volume to this,
entitled 'Yorkshire Dales and Fells.'
GORDON HOME.
EPSOM, 1907.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
ACROSS THE MOORS FROM PICKERING TO WHITBY
CHAPTER II
ALONG THE ESK VALLEY
CHAPTER III
THE COAST FROM WHITBY TO REDCAR
CHAPTER IV
THE COAST FROM WHITBY TO SCARBOROUGH
CHAPTER V
SCARBOROUGH
CHAPTER VI
WHITBY
CHAPTER VII
THE CLEVELAND HILLS
CHAPTER VIII
GUISBOROUGH AND THE SKELTON VALLEY
CHAPTER IX
FROM PICKERING TO RIEVAULX ABBEY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. On Barnby Moor
2. Goathland Moor
3. An Autumn Scene on the Esk
4. Sleights Moor from Swart Houc Cross
5. A Stormy Afternoon
6. East Row, Sandsend
7. In Mulgrave Woods
8. Runswick Bay
9. A Sunny Afternoon at Runswick
10. Sunrise from Staithes Beck
11. Three Generations at Staithes
12. Boulby Cliffs from Staithes Scaur
13. The Coast at Saltburn
14. Whitby Abbey from the Cliffs
15. Robin Hood's Bay
16. A Street in Robin Hood's Bay
17. Scarborough Harbour and Castle
18. Sunlight and Shadows in Whitby Harbour
19. The Red Roofs of Whitby
20. Evening at Whitby
21. The Cleveland Hills from above Kildale
22. Hutton Woods, near Guisborough
23. A Wide Expanse of Heather seen from Great Ayton Moor
24. A Golden Afternoon, Danby
25. A Sunset from Danby Beacon
26. An Autumn Day at Guisborough
27. A Yorkshire Postman
28. The Skelton Valley
29. In Pickering Church
30. The Market-place, Helmsley
31. Rievaulx Abbey from 'The Terrace'
_Map at end of volume_
CHAPTER I
ACROSS THE MOORS FROM PICKERING TO WHITBY
The ancient stone-built town of Pickering is to a great extent the
gateway to the moors of Northeastern Yorkshire, for it stands at the
foot of that formerly inaccessible gorge known as Newton Dale, and is
the meeting-place of the four great roads running north, south, east,
and west, as well as of railways going in the same directions. And this
view of the little town is by no means original, for the strategic
importance of the position was recognised at least as long ago as the
days of the early Edwards, when the castle was built to command the
approach to Newton Dale and to be a menace to the whole of the Vale of
Pickering.
The old-time traveller from York to Whitby saw practically nothing of
Newton Dale, for the great coach-road bore him towards the east, and
then, on climbing the steep hill up to Lockton Low Moor, he went almost
due north as far as Sleights. But to-day everyone passes right through
the gloomy canyon, for the railway now follows the windings of Pickering
Beck, and nursemaids and children on their way to the seaside may gaze
at the frowning cliffs which seventy years ago were only known to
travellers and a few shepherds. But although this great change has been
brought about by railway enterprise, the gorge is still uninhabited, and
has lost little of its grandeur; for when the puny train, with its
accompanying white cloud, has disappeared round one of the great bluffs,
there is nothing left but the two pairs of shining rails, laid for long
distances almost on the floor of the ravine. But though there are steep
gradients to be climbed, and the engine labours heavily, there is
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