The North Riding of YorkshireUniversity Press, 1919 - 161 sider |
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Abbey acres ancient beautiful Beck Beds border Bridge Britain brought building built called Castle chief church clay Cleveland cliffs climate coal coast contains cover crops crosses dales deep deposits Derwent district Durham Early east eastern England English famous farming feet fells fishing Force formed furnaces grit Hall hard Hills important industrial instance interest iron John Wyclif known land layers less limestone lived Lower means Middlesbrough miles moorland moors mountain Norman North Riding Northallerton once Pass Pennines Pickering places plain population port Quaker railway reach Redcar region Richmond ridge rise river road rocks Roman ruined rule runs Saltburn Sandstones Scarborough ship shire Staithes stands station stone stream stretch Swale Tees town Upper Vale valley village walls Wensleydale western Whitby Yarm York Yorkshire
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Side 4 - MACMILLAN AND co., LTD. MADRAS J TORONTO : JM DENT AND SONS, LTD. TOKYO: MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA ALL RIGHTS...
Side 123 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Side 142 - This being to the sea-side and lying much open, the wind drove in the rain forcibly, so that the water came over my bed, and ran about the room, that I was fain to skim it up with a platter.
Side 161 - Fig. 7. Proportionate Numbers of Live Stock in the North Riding in 1914. The figures given in the several diagrams are retained, and it will be noted that the conditions indicated are pre-war. The proportions shown above depend mainly upon natural conditions; these proportions, therefore, are likely to be restored when things have settled down again. CAMBRIDGE : PRINTED BY JB PEACE, MA, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 3 9015 01865 0831 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 30...
Side 138 - Caedmon began to sing verses, ' which he had never heard before,' and which are said to have been as follows :— Now we shall praise the guardian of heaven, the might of the creator, and his counsel, the gloiy-father of men! how he of all wonders, the eternal lord, formed the beginning. He first created for the children of men heaven as a roof, the holy creator! then the world the guardian of mankind, the eternal lord, produced afterwards, the earth for men, the almighty master...
Side 48 - ... Runswick Bay, one of the most charming parts of the Yorkshire coast, also has its picturesque village near a wood-sheltered hollow. It is reached from Hinderwell above the cliffs by the steepest of paths. Whitby and its adjunct four miles north, the little village of Sandsend, are delightful places. Picturesque in itself, with its red roofs and quaint gables, nestling under the cliffs and dominated by the noble ruin of its Abbey on the east, Whitby is as beautiful as any town on the English coast....
Side 60 - ... and more equable climate, gradually died out and disappeared.* In the state of stability to which the surface of the globe appears actually to have attained, the sun must be considered as the agent which most directly influences the temperature of our atmosphere. The length of the day, the number of hours during which the sun is above the horizon, coupled with the height to which he ascends, such is the cause with which the temperature of each particular latitude is primarily connected; and in...
Side 6 - ... Cleveland Hills into material for the iron-worker, of steel-mills, of ship-yards, and of busy docks and quays. Nine-tenths of the riding is still occupied by farms. The broad valley between the Pennine fells and the North Yorkshire moors on the east is covered by excellent soil. The green fertile plain, spread over the soft sandstones and marls of the New Red series of rocks, stretches to the sterile moorlands east and west where the limestone emerges from its deep foundation.
Side 158 - Under the energetic guidance of the Tees Conservancy Commission, Yarm may have a future, but at present it is far surpassed by its modern rivals, (pp. 26, 74, 87, 88, 128, 131, 143.) I"S England & Wales 37,337,537 acres Yorkshire 3,889,758 acre!
Side 159 - England and Wales 618 Yorkshire 655 N. Riding 197 Lancashire 2554 Westmorland 80 Fig. 3. Comparative Density of the Population to the sq.