Category: Travel Writing
its Abbey--Roxburghe Castle--Floors Castle--The Teviot--Ancrum--Carlenrig--The Ale--The Jed and Jedburgh--Mertoun--Smailholm Tower and Sandyknowe--Eildon and Sir Michael Scott--Dryburgh--The Leader and Thomas the Rhymer--Melrose--Skirmish Hill--Abbotsford--The Ettrick and the...
its Abbey--Roxburghe Castle--Floors Castle--The Teviot--Ancrum--Carlenrig--The Ale--The Jed and Jedburgh--Mertoun--Smailholm Tower and Sandyknowe--Eildon and Sir Michael Scott--...
3. CHAPTER I.--THE NORTH TYNE.--Peel Fell--Deadwater Bog--KeilderCastle and the Keilder Moors--The Border Peel--Border Feuds and Friendships--The Charltons--Bellingham--The Reed--Tyne Salmon--The Village of Wark--Chipchase Castle--Haughton Ca...
4. CHAPTER II.--THE SOUTH TYNE.--On the "Fiend's Fell"--Tyne5. CHAPTER III.--FROM HEXHAM TO NEWCASTLE.--Hexham and the Abbey6. CHAPTER IV.--FROM NEWCASTLE TO THE SEA.--The Growth ofWilliam of Malmesbury on the Wear--Its Associations--Upper Weardale and its Inhabitants--Stanhope--Hunting the Scots--Wolsingham--Bollihope Fell and the "Lang Man's Grave"--Hams...
7. CHAPTER I.--THE TRENT, FROM THE SOURCE TO NEWTON SOLNEY.--The8. CHAPTER II.--THE DOVE.--What's in the Name--Axe Edge and9. CHAPTER III.--THE TRENT, FROM NEWTON SOLNEY TO THE DERWENT.--Newton10. CHAPTER IV.--THE DERWENT.--The Derwent in its Infancy--Derwent11. CHAPTER V.--THE TRENT, FROM THE DERWENT TO THE HUMBER.--The12. CHAPTER VI.--THE WHARFE.--General Characteristics--TheSkirfare--Langstrothdale--Kettlewell--Dowkabottom Cave--Coniston and its Neighbourhood--Rylstone and the Nortons--Burnsall--Appletreewick: an Eccentric Parson--Simon's Seat--Bar...
13. CHAPTER VII.--THE OUSE.--The Ure and the Swale--Myton and14. CHAPTER VIII.--THE ESTUARY.--Drainage and Navigation--DimensionsTHE WITHAM: Grantham--Lincoln--Boston. THE NEN: Naseby--Northampton--Earls Barton--Castle Ashby--Wellingborough--Higham Ferrers--Thrapston--Oundle--Castor--Peterborough. THE WEL...
15. CHAPTER I."A bonny water" was the phrase used of the Tweed by a peasant-woman whom Dorothy Wordsworth met when she came to spy out the Border river. Homely as the expression is, it would...
16. CHAPTER II.Kelso and its Abbey--Roxburghe Castle--Floors Castle--The Teviot--Ancrum--Carlenrig--The Ale--The Jed and Jedburgh--Mertoun--Smailholm Tower and Sandyknowe--Eildon and Sir Micha...
17. CHAPTER I.Peel Fell--Deadwater Bog--Keilder Castle and the Keilder Moors--The Border Peel--Border Feuds and Friendships--The Charltons--Bellingham--The Reed--Tyne Salmon--The Village of W...
18. CHAPTER II.We are in Cumberland, amid the wilds. How did St. Augustine contrive to penetrate to such a region as this? The land is desolate, bleak, solitary. A desert of heathery hills; he...
19. CHAPTER III.Until it becomes a tidal river, which does not happen till the huge pillar of smoke that announces Newcastle comes in sight, the Tyne in ordinary seasons is a broad and shallow...
20. CHAPTER IV.From Newcastle to the sea, twelve miles by water, the Tyne is a vast tidal dock. It stands second among the rivers of the kingdom for the extent of its commerce. The Thames take...
21. CHAPTER I.Some of our chief English rivers seek out paths for their waters, the motive of which is by no means easy to explain. Father Thames, indeed, goes about this work in a fairly bus...
22. CHAPTER II.There are two rivers bearing the beautiful name of the Dove--a name derived from "the shimmering gleam of water, corresponding to the lustre of the dove's white wing." There are...
23. CHAPTER III.Truly a pretty spot is the little village of Newton Solney, rising up the slope from a low scarp which overlooks the Trent, with its scattered houses, its small church spire, an...
24. CHAPTER IV.The Derwent in its Infancy--Derwent Chapel and Hall--Hathersage--Eyam--Grindleford Bridge--Chatsworth--The "Peacock" at Rowsley--Haddon Hall--The Wye and the Lathkill--Darley Da...
25. CHAPTER V.Shortly after it has received the Derwent and passed by the locks communicating with the Erewash canal, the Trent is joined by another affluent, on its opposite bank. This is th...
26. CHAPTER VI.General Characteristics--The Skirfare--Langstrothdale--Kettlewell--Dowkabottom Cave--Coniston and its Neighbourhood--Rylstone and the Nortons--Burnsall--Appletreewick: an Eccent...
27. CHAPTER VII.The Yorkshire Ouse (from the Celtic "uisg" or water) has one decided peculiarity among important British rivers: it has no natural beginning, and it loses its identity before it...
28. CHAPTER VIII.A glance at that part of the map where Yorkshire is separated from Lincolnshire reveals the full extent of the Humber, but while it shows a wide estuary, it conveys a poor idea...