| Description | Roderick Impey Murchison, fieldbooks & diaries: Central England
1826 London to Scarborough [N. Yks] (40pp): Bargate stone: Godalming [Sy], Hollow[ay Hill ?], Hascombe Road, Toft Hill, Crampits [sic – now Crownpits], Hogs Back (2). Lyss [? Liss, Hants], Trotten [W. Sx], Midhurst, Southerby, Halfway Bridge, Godalming [Sy] (3). Firestone: Totternhoe Quarries, nr Dunstable [Beds]. Vale of Aylesbury [Bucks] (4.) Dunstable [Beds]26 May 1826. “Hockliffe, Woburn, Newport Pagnell, Hazlebeach.” Dunstable [Beds], Hockliffe, Woburn Sands [vil. In Bucks], Newport Pagnell (8), Gayhurst, Northampton [N’hants] (9). Pitsford, Brixworth, Lamport, Maidwell, Haselbeach, Naseby (10). Kelmarsh, Harborough (15). Mount Sorrel [Leics], Loughborough, Whitwick Hill, Beacon Hill, Charnwood Forest. “Bulls head, Loughborough, 29 May, Royal Oak Day.” (16) Nottingham [Notts], Mansfield (18), Sherwood Forest (21), Doncaster [S. Yks], Welbeck [Notts], Worksop, Carlton, Balby [?S. Yks]. Tickhill, Roche Abbey, Leeds Coalfield (23), York [N. Yks], Went Hill [?] (24). [pp. 25 & 26 cut out.] York, Pickering, Malton and Scarborough, Castle Howard (28). June 1826: Speeton chalk cliffs to Scarborough [with Mr Williamson], Vale of Pickering, Filey Brigg (35), Flamborough [H’side] (36), Scarborough [N. Yks], Filey (37). Gristhorpe Bay (38), Cayton Bay, Cayton Mill, Osgodby (39). Scarborough section from Scarborough Castle to Cloughton (40). Castle Howard, Hildenley (inside back cover). |