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The Huddersfield College Magazine Volume 3
1874 to 1875
III - Holiday Rambles, The Wharfe
Page 169
Quote: "The Wharfe has a longer course through fine scenery than any other Yorkshire river.... With Wharfedale I made my first acquaintance at that spot,—which has been called "the central spot in England for sweet native loveliness,"—where from a romantic glen, the river emerges into that "picturesque combination of cliff, meadow, forest, and monastic ruins."
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Tourist's Guide to The West Riding of Yorksire by G Phillips Bevan, FGS
1877
Page 107
Quote: "Following the course of the Wharfe, lm. above Buckden is Kirkgill or Hubberholme, the church of Langstrothdale, which the pedestrian has now entered. St. Michael's Chapel, as it is called.... It is an interesting fact, that the dialect of this dale, in the very heart of the Yorkshire mountains, should agree more than any dialect in England with that which is to be found in Chaucer."
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MURRAY's HANDBOOK F0R TRAVELLERS IN YORKSHIRE
1882 (Third Edition)
Route 31 - Page 402
Quote: "Langstrothdale or Langstrother (the name seems originally celtic - Strath hir, the 'long valley' and as in many similar cases, the teutonic translation of part of the name was added to it - Langstrother and Cornstrother occur in the 'Black Book of Hexham' among the boundaries of Carraw; and Comp...."
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The Craven and North-West Yorkshire Highlands By H Speight
1892
Chapter XXXIII, At The Head of the Wharfe
Page 338
Quote: "In the winter 1885-6, when, owing to the accumulations of snow.... this old church is said to have been buried in the drifts midway up the windows. Many of the gullies and narrow passes in the neighbourhood were choked to a depth of thirty or forty feet, and several houses had literally to be " dug out." A very large number of sheep perished...."
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UPPER WHARFEDALE by HARRY SPEIGHT
1900
ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY, ANTIQUITIES AND SCENERY
Page 491
Quote: "Previous vicars had been obliged to content themselves with the best lodgment they could find in the village, but through the exertions of the present energetic vicar, the Rev. Richard F. R. Anderton, a house has been provided at last worthy of those entrusted with the cure of souls."
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