tant is Pendle hill, 1800 feet above the level of the sea. 6765. One M. P. Pop. Three and a-half miles from Clitheroe is Brownsholme, (T. Parker, Esq.) a curious building, erected in the time of Henry VII. containing, among other interesting antiquities, the original silver seal of the commonwealth. Eight miles from Haslingden is the town of BLACKBURN, famous for its manufacture of calicoes. It has two churches, an academy for the education of dissenting ministers, several meeting houses, a grammar school, and a gymnasium, erected by Messrs Hornby and Kenworthy, eminent mill-owners, for the recreation of their workmen. Two M. P. Pop. 36,629. About ten miles from Blackburn is the Jesuists' College of Stonyhurst.* The road leads through Ribblesdale, one of the finest and most extensive vales in England. To the left is Ribchester, the celebrated Roman station, and to the north-east, the Castle of Clitheroe, standing on its bold and abrupt eminence. Stonyhurst stands in a fine situation, and has a noble and commanding aspect. It was built in the reign of Elizabeth, by Sir Richard Sherburne, whose daughter carried the estate by marriage into the family of the Welds of Lulworth Castle, Dorsetshire, by whom it was disposed of to the founders of the college. This institution was established in 1794, and is conducted in a very efficient manner. About 180 boys, principally sons of the Roman Catholic nobility and gentry, receive their education in it. Charles Waterton and Shiel were educated here. Besides the class rooms and other accommodations necessary for the purpose of tuition, it contains a museum, in which, among other interesting objects, are the private seals of James II., and of Fenelon, and the cap, beads, seal, and reliquary of Sir Thomas More; a number of transatlantic curiosities presented by C. Waterton, Esq. of Walton Hall; a good collection of minerals and shells, bronze casts of the Cæsars, and plaster casts of the apostles, and a quaint old jewel chest which belonged to Queen Christina of Sweden. The library contains some highly illuminated MSS. In the philosophical apparatus-room there is a fine painting, by Annibal Caracci, of the Descent from the Cross. The recreation hall, a magnificent gallery, 90 feet by 20, is embellished with a great number of paintings, and hung with tapestry. The refectory was the baronial hall of the Sherburnes. The gardens are laid out in the old style, and contain some lofty well-trimmed walls of yew. Here is to be seen the identical Roman altar which Camden saw at Ribchester in 1603, one of the finest remains of classical antiquity in the country. A handsome church has lately been erected at Stonyhurst, at an expense of above L. 10,000. At Mytton church, in the vicinity, there are some fine monuments of the Sherburnes. Stonyhurst is equidistant from Clitheroe, Whalley, and Ribchester. * The distance is only about seven miles by the footpath in a direct line, but the carriage road is very circuitous. 191 16 Near Burnley is Towne ley Hall, the seat of P. E. Towneley, Esq., a venera16 ble mansion forming three sides of a quadrangle, the fourth side of which was removed about a hundred years ago. Here is a fine collection of family portraits. This seat was once the residence of the celebrated antiquary, C. Towneley, Esq.,. who formed that exquisite col- 13 lection of antique marbles and statues now in the British Museum. The mansion is surrounded by noble woods, principally of ancient oak, finely dispersed and scattered over the park, and demesnes to a great extent. Near Towneley is Ormerod Ho., Hargreaves, Esq. ON RIGHT FROM LOND. ON LEFT FROM LOND. Hooa House and Gawthorp Hall, the residence of the Shuttleworth family. Burnley stands on a tongue of land formed by the confluence of the Burn with the Calder. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the cotton manufacture. The chapel is an ancient building, and contains several monuments. There is a grammar school founded about the time of Edward VI. Pop. 10,699. Colne is a small town, with numerous cotton and woollen manufactories. It has a neat church, several meeting-houses, a grammar school, and a cloth hall. The Leeds canal passes within a mile of it. Pop. 8615. CVIII. LONDON TO SKIPTON THROUGH DONCASTER, Wakefield, Badsworth Hall, Ackworth Park, J. Gully, Esq. Nostel Priory, C. Winn, 401 Esq. Sharlston Hall. To Pontefract, 53 m. 37 Hooton Pagnell Hall, Elmsall Lodge. BRADFORD is a well-built and populous town, beautifully situated at the union of three extensive valleys, and forms nearly a central point with Halifax, Keighley, Leeds, Wakefield, Dewsbury, and Huddersfield. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the manufacture of woollen cloths and cotton. And about three miles to the south-east of the town are extensive foundries, with abundance of coal and iron ore in the vicinity. The trade of the town is greatly promoted by a canal which leads from the centre of the town to the Leads and Liverpool canal. Bradford possesses two spacious churches and several meeting houses. The environs of the town are extremely pleasant, and the surrounding country abounds with picturesque scenery. During the great civil war the inhabitants of Bradford were distinguished for their adherence to the parliamentary cause and twice repulsed a large body of royalists from the garrison of Leeds. Two' M. P. Pop. of township, 34,560. At Undercliffe, near Bradford, is the Airedale College for the education of Dissenting ministers. About five miles from the town is the Moravian settlement of Fulneck, distinguished by the neatness and industry of its inhabitants. CIX. LONDON TO SEDBERGH BY BOROUGHBRIDGE, LEYBURN, AND CX. LONDON TO MUKER THROUGH RICHMOND AND REETH, 252 Miles. 15 Brompton upon Swale. 229 RICHMOND. 232 10 REETH. Healaugh. 6 Featham. 3 Gunnerside. 2 south side of the town, overlooking the Swale, which runs in a deep valley beneath. The keep is 11 about 100 feet high, and the shell almost entire. The walls are 11 feet thick. This castle was founded by Earl Alain of Bretagne, who came over with William the Conqueror. Near the castle, on the opposite bank of the Swale, are the ruins of the Priory of St Martin; and north of the town are the ruins and a fine tower of the Greyfriars. Here are also the ruins of St Nicholas's Hospital. Richmond is delightfully situated on a lofty emithe nence rising from Swale, which winds round the town and the castle in 2414 a semicircular direction. It has an old church, the chapel of the Trinity (repaired 1740,) a Roman Catholic chapel, meeting houses, a 2434 town hall, free grammar 241 and other schools. It is 245 noted for its extensive corn market, and has a considerable traffic in lead. 248 The country round Richmond is remarkably picturesque. Two M. P. Pop. of par. 3992. cr. river Swale. 250 |