Summer Rambles in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, a Sequel to 'Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers'.

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.1866 Excerpt: ... archaeologist, ) instead of bearing to the right, and visiting Lyme, we make our way for a short distance along the Buxton road, and then mount the steep ascent upon the left, cottages on either hand, eventually turning into a lane, through a gate that opens and shuts by a piece of mechanism illustrative of the ingenuity of the antediluvians, we come to the broad and airy hillside called Jackson Edge. Keep mounting the turf upon the left, and a few minutes will bring reward in another of the grand initiative panoramas upon which Disley so justly prides itself. The plain, seen from Lyme Park, is displayed even more extensively, yet we must not pause over it long, since a greater treat awaits us. Jackson Edge, however, may by some be found far enough, and in that case it is best to curl round by the stone-quarries, (where grows the stag's-horn, Lycopo'dium clave/turn, ) and so into the fir-wood, thence descending into the Buxton road--a very pleasant little walk, and enough, in truth, to give an idea of the extent of country commanded from this last of the Cheshire hills. Better far nevertheless is it to descend in the direction that leads farthest away from Disley, when, after passing through a few fields, we reach Marple Ridge. No one can suppose, without going thither, how vast is the prospect obtained from the ridge, and it is hard to believe that we command it with so little climbing. The fact is, that the railway does most of the work for us, the line from Hazel-grove to Disley being one continuous rise. Standing with our backs to Disley, on the right we have the great green pyramid called Cobden Edge, then the hills that rise above Whaley-Bridge and Taxal, with Kinder-Scout resting, as it were, on their shoulders--though far away--and villages, groves, a.