. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . ale, where formerly the violenthunter ruled, is now the home of thousands of busy workmen, who fulfilmore peaceful ministries at home, and help to clothe and civilize the worldabroad. 12S OiP BOLTON ABBEY. Bolton Abbey can be approached from Skipton, Keighley, or the two former we rise over the high uplands and then descend intothe Vale of the Wharfe; from Ilkley—the Malvern of the North—we passup the vale itself, among hill and dell, rich meadow lands and bright river
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . ale, where formerly the violenthunter ruled, is now the home of thousands of busy workmen, who fulfilmore peaceful ministries at home, and help to clothe and civilize the worldabroad. 12S OiP BOLTON ABBEY. Bolton Abbey can be approached from Skipton, Keighley, or the two former we rise over the high uplands and then descend intothe Vale of the Wharfe; from Ilkley—the Malvern of the North—we passup the vale itself, among hill and dell, rich meadow lands and bright riverreaches, the golden glory of the field flowers and the emerald greenness oftlie grass, the pretty gabled homesteads, and here and there the busy silkmills, until at length we reach the broad Skipton and Narrogate turnpike,and cross the liolton Bridge. A little beyond the well-known DevonshireArms we turn through the Park wall by a wicket-gate, and wander downthe beautiful field and by the margin of the river to the Abbey. Nothingcan exceed tlic sense of repose and beauty which the spot inspires. In the ^^. BOLION AbbLV, NEAR SKU^TON. midst of a meadow, along the sides of which the Wharfe winds its way downfrom the wooded glen of Ikrden Tower, while the hills of Simon Seat andBarden Fell look down from above, here rise the piers of the old monastictower, and the ruins of the nave, transejit, and choir, and fragments of the(loister, refectory, and chapter-house of the famous Priory of Bolton. \\c all know the memories that cluster round this place. Seven hundredyears ago there was no Abbey here, but there was a religious house at]:mbsay near Skipton. One day a lad—the boy of Egremond—an only(hild and heir of the founders of the Abbey at Embsay, leading a hound ina leash in Barden Woods, attempted to spring across the Wharfe at the•Slrid; the dog hung back, and the boy was dragged into the river anddrowned. The forester, who had witnessed the catastrophe, hurried awaywit
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