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Gentleman's Magazine 1761 p.126
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Ingleborough
Mr URBAN, I Have long been an attentive reader of your Magazine, and have been particulary pleased with that part of your work, in which the natural curiosities of remarkable places are described. In your Mag. for July last, (See p.316) a correspndent from Wakefield expresses a desire that some person who resides near Ingleborough in Yorkshire, would communicate to the public an account of the uncommon curiosities which are found in the environs of that place. As you have yet published nothing on the subject, I send you the following account, and hope ot will at least excite some more able hand to send you a better. INGLEBOROUGH is situated in the west riding of the county of York; the westerly and northerly part of it lies in the parish of Bentham; the easterly in the parish of Horton in Pibbledale (sic); the southerly in the parish of Clapham. It is likewise a part of four manors. The manor of Ingleton, to the west; belonging to ----- Parker, Esq; the manor of Newby, to the co-heirs of the late duke of Montagu; the manor of Clapham, to Josias Morley, Esq; and the manor of Austwick, to James Shuttleworth, Esq. It is a mountain, singularly eminent, whether you regard its height, or the immediate base upon which it stands. It is near 20 miles in circumference, and has Clapham, a church town, to the south; Ingleton to the west; Chapel in the Dale to the north; and Selside, a small hamlet, to the east; from each of which places the rsie, in some parts, is even and gradual; in others, rugged and perpendicular. In this mountain rise considerable streams, which at length fall into the Irish Sea. The land round the bottom is fine fruitful pasture, interspersed with many acres of lime-stone rocks. As you ascend the mountain, the land is more barren, and under the surface is peat-moss, in many places two or three yards deep, which the country people cut up, and dry for burning, instead of coal. As the mountain rises, it becomes more rugged and perpendicular, and is |
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