Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819. Excerpt: ... travelling with their own horses, or on foot from Millthorpe. But there may be some difficulty in procuring post horses. A good part of the way from Lancaster to Burton is cheered with fine prospects of the sea, and the mountains of Lancashire and Westmorland. But an earlier, and perhaps still more interesting, deviation from the public road, may be made by leaving it five and a half miles from Lancaster. This road is through Warton and under Warton crag, a bold elevation, and highly interesting to the botanist. "On its arched summit are the vestiges of a square encampment, and the ruins of a beacon." Warton crag waa one of Mr. Yates's primary stations for his survey of Lancashire, and from this place the writer angled to all the surrounding country; there is a fine view from it, which perhaps for its variety of sea and land prospect, is rarely equalled. From Warton the road passes through the villages of Yealand Conyers, Yealand Redman, and Yealand Storrs. On the left of these villages stands Leighton Hall, encompassed by local beauties, and many favourable points from which to view the northern mountains, Leighton Hall is a splendid mansion, and was the seat of the late Alexander Worswick, Esq., under whose eye the house and grounds were very much improved. At Leighton furnace, which is eleven miles and a half from Lancaster, the road enters Westmorland, and at twelve and a half passes through the beautiful village of Beetham. On the river at Beetham mill there is a singular sort of water-fall, well worthy the traveller's attention. Beetham Hall is said to be a fine ruin, but it has not been seen by the writer. From Beetham to Millthorpe a mile and a half, making this rout from Lancaster fifteen miles, the same distance as by Burton. The new intended r...
