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awhilesince · 2 years

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Thursday, 19 June 1823

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.. Down to breakfast at 10 55/60 – Off from Settle at 11 10/60 – Got out at the George Inn (– Pilling) Gisburn at 1 40/60 – Beautiful drive from Settle to Gisburne 11 miles –

t 5 miles from Settle (turned off to the right at long Preston) on our right very prettily situated on the rising ground above the Ribble, Halton-house (Halton West) Mr Yorke’s – let to a Mr Batty from Huddersfield – about 2 miles from Gisburne, the woods about the Park beautiful – a common white gate about a mile from the village opens into a back way leading to the house –

Gisburne a very neat-looking little market town – the church rather anticipant looking on the outside, but nothing particular within – only one monument, and that put up by one of the Listers to one of the Ashtons (styled his benefaction) in 1709 – Going to be a funeral – the church doors therefore open –

Got the clerk’s son, a boy of 13 or 14, for a guide, and walked to the hall – the Gothic approach lodges, close to the village, very handsome – the approach rather too short (perhaps 1/4 mile), but chiefly wooded on both sides, and pretty enough – the hall door open – went in – then walked round to the back part of the house – went into the kitchen, and got a woman servant to show us over the below stairs rooms – the house shewn when the family was not there – Only mylord at home – riding out in the grounds – very infirm – saw a wheel-chair like my late aunt Lister’s that he is wheeled about in – Mr Lister at York with his Craven legion – Miss Lister daily expected from London – the battle of Marston moor, a good painting by Abraham Cooper – Oliver Cromwell, General Lambert, and Captain Lister, all likenesses – Cromwell, 1/2 length by Sir Peter Lely, very good – Dr. Whitaker (in his Craven) mentions this as perhaps the best likeness ever taken of him – the house wants painting and new-furnishing – asked about the upstairs rooms – the woman said the furniture was old and worn out – they were not shewn – the place altogether indicates that its present possessor does not lay out much money upon it – a great deal wants doing – several pictures in oils by Mr Lister, and a new style in oils or resembling them that he has lately learnt in Bath – heads, landscapes – A large view of Gordale, in oils, just finished, taken by Mr Lister the best likeness of the place I remember to have seen –

walked across the park and thro’ the fields to Westby, 1/2 a mile or more, once a village and the original nest, as it were, of our family and Lord Ribblesdale’s – but the village has been taken away – and nothing remains but 2 modern looking cottages – a barn bearing no trace of antiquity, modern dog-kennels, and a large well-walled kitchen garden now in use for the hall – the wild cattle very gentle – milked night and morning, and as quiet as the rest – Midhope, great and little, 2 farm- houses, not so old looking as Westby – a mile beyond Westby – on the moor – nearer to Pendil hill – then the Midhopes must be modern indeed – perhaps recently rebuilt as farm houses – Set out to walk at 1 50/60 – got back at 4 5/60 –

Off from Gisburne at 4 17/60 – Gisburne 11 miles from Skipton, 9 from Colne, and 7 1/2 from Clitheroe – Turned down from the road to the right, and got to Salley abbey and village (4 miles) at 5 10/60 – went a few yards out of one onto the bridge over the Ribble for a distant view of Bolton hall (Colonel Bolton from Liverpool who fought a duel with ––) mentioned by Dr. Whitaker as the oldest house bishop Pococke ever saw – It was a white-looking gable-ended house, too far out of our way, and possibly not a very direct road – merely a few bits of old walls remaining of Salley Abbey – the neighbouring cottages have widely been built out of its spoils, – but are very shabby – the surrounding beautiful – the monks knew how to choose situations –

From Salley to Clitheroe beautiful drive – the first view of Clitheroe castle very imposing – this castle-capped mound and town beneath it, reminded at 6 35/60 – most beautiful drive from Gisburne to Clitheroe –

went to the castle immediately after ordering dinner and beds – Except a little of the old wall about midway the mound, the shell of a square Tower at the very top of it, and its surrounding wall at 5 or 6 yards distance is all that remains – From this wall immediately surrounding the Tower a very fine view – Pendil-hill very fine – the valley on all sides very rich – the altogether reminded us of Denbigh and the vale of Clwyd – we called Clitheroe (for it is only a miniature likeness) little Denbigh – From Clitheroe to the top of that part of Pendil over which the road goes to Huntroyde Mr Starkie’s, 2 miles – to the farthest and highest point, I should guess to be about 4 miles, going right across from the Town –

Sat down to dinner at 8 – Roast leg of lamb, mashed potatoes – goos[e]berry tarts and cream – all pretty good –

after dinner wrote out pages 34, 35, of this volume of my journal and went upstairs to bed at 12 1/4 – [E two dots O two dots, marking discharge from venereal complaint] – several drops of dischar ge very slightly tinged so that I fancied my cousin coming –

Very fine day – but the road from Settle to Long Preston so dusty, we were quite covered – after leaving Long Preston, the road was more like a by-road (tho’ good) and it was much less dusty (since any dust at all) and much pleasanter –

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Gisburne.

Westby.

Midhope.

Bolton hall.

Salley-abbey.

Clitheroe.

Clitheroe castle belongs to the old duchess of Bucleugh [Buccleuch]. the castellated house near the castle inhabited by her steward Mr Kerr.

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0029

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quinnptbs · 2 years

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Anne Lister and Ann Walker from Gentleman Jack. Some historical lesbians.

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thelexperience · 2 years

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dd122004dd · 2 months

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Ardeth Bay

Originally posted by annelisters

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sci-fi · 2 years

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hello friends !! i haven’t done a follow forever since the new year, and since i’m about to start college, i thought i may as well do one now :D I want to thank all of my followers, but especially my mutuals, for sticking with me ! you’re all amazing folks and i hope you’re having a great year so far :)

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rosamndpike · 2 years

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hey guys!!! so, i’m not entirely sure how we are here, but there’s 13k of you following my mess of a blog???? truly crazy!!! AND today is also my blogs 12th birthday !!!! (someone tell me how i’ve suvived this hellsite since june 27th, 2010?!?!) so to celebrate all of the above and thank you guys, i thought i’d do a lil celebration!

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orion-lake · 1 year

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Happy New Year! I wanted to shout out “some” posts of 2022 that I really loved. I want to say thank you to all fellow gif makers to put in the time and effort to share their creations.

Please do not feel bad if you’re not on the list. I have a running queue on my blog, so my post number per month is fairly huge. So I may just have missed your post.

Feel free to share, and please, if you like a post, please reblog and share the love.

January 2022

Morgana Pendragon ▶ Season 3, Episode 02: “The Tears of Uther Pendragon: Part Two” - @katieskeep

YENNEFER APPRECIATION WEEK | favorite outfit - @yenvengerberg

— New Year’s Day by Taylor Swift - @antoniosvivaldi

WOLF MOON | S1E1 - @teenwolfgifs

February 2022

‘cause we never go out of style… - @jumpthensfall

HAPPY 32ND BIRTHDAY TAYLOR ALISON SWIFT - @newrcmantlcs

March 2022

the wheel of time gifset - @scinnlaece

allison argent gifset - @bericas

bau ladies + tarot cards - @cabotism (deactivated)

HARRY POTTER film series based on the novels by the same name (2001-2011) - @yourstarfuckerworld (deactivated)

stiles stilinski & lydia martin TEEN WOLF (2011-2017) - @crazysjane (deactivated)

MISTY & NATALIE in Yellowjackets | Season One [insp] - @queencalanthes

April 2022

Charmed | Patty & Prue & Piper | Head Above Water - @littletonpace

NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES: The Marauders - @some-people-call-it-tragic

Man the boundaries. Protect us. Do your duty to our school. - @hermoiine

THE DORA MILAJE aka “THE ADORED ONES” - @rachelschu (deactivated)

May 2022

ALL MY GIRLS LIKE TO FIGHT. - @bericas

↳ ingrid, the snow queen - @thewildmother

hogwarts houses common rooms aes - @ostara-goddess

harry potter meme: [1/3] colours. teal - @19-17

laura’s 10k celebration (top 30 ships as voted by my followers) ✵ 21 ➳ buffy summers & spike - @katherineebishop

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) dir. David Yates - @mike-mills

June 2022

i got a list of names and yours is in red, underlined - @learned-civility

the big seven + planets symbolism (insp.) - @hermiione

July 2022

doctor who appreciation week day three ☆ favorite season/era - @benoitblanc

Taylor Swift in 2021 - @wishfulthinkinglove

AU SPUFFY - they can be a romcom if they want - - @l0veisntbrains

taylor swift gifset - @treachreous

August 2022

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - @drsattlers

↳ SCOOBY-DOO (2002) dir. Raja Gosnell - @wakandasforever

— Taylor Swift on 💜 Last Kiss 💜 - @antoniosvivaldi

September 2022

#MetalMonday | ✟ Rest in Peace ✟ (Dorothy) - @x--daughters-of-darkness--x

October 2022

TEEN WOLF APPRECIATION WEEK ☽ day one: female character(s) - @unspokenstydia

MERLINWEEK2022 | DAY 02 Favourite scene or season : season 04 (insp) - @thebookluvrr1816

#the journey - @payidaresque

MERLIN WEEK 2022 day 1: favourite character ➛ arthur pendragon + dnd character sheet (in/sp.) - @arthurpendragonns

DAILYMARVELSTUDIOS 5K CELEBRATION: FAVORITE MARVEL DYNAMIC - @dailymarvelstudios

November 2022

Bridgerton Siblings + Love Interest - @marlenadia

laura’s 11k celebration (top 40 characters as voted by my followers) ✵ 40 ➳ emma swan - @katherineebishop

Grace & Frankie + final scenes - @jakeperalta

Vampire Appreciation Week [2022] October 27th ~ Favourite Vampire/Vampire Dynamic - @sulietsexual

Bridgerton Couples + Tropes - @marlenadia

VAMPIRE APPRECIATION WEEK 2022 - day one: favorite vampire CAROLINE FORBES - The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017) - @naiey

December 2022

EDWINA & KATE SHARMA — The Sun & The Moon - @gifshistorical

WEDNESDAY CHARACTERS as TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUMS - @reputayswift

favorite non-romantic dynamic MISS EDWINA AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE - @edwinadaily

WEDNESDAY (2022) + RAINBOW - @usergif

marvel characters - @annelisters

WELL! THE PLAN HAS SOME FLAWS, ADMITTEDLY. - @phoebehalliwell

Favorite Romantic Pairing — Colin and Penelope Bridgerton - @wandarogers

WEDNESDAY: SEASON 1 (2022) - @vanessacarlysle

#posts of 2022!

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mistfunk · 1 year

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Mistigram: this is a monochrome #teletext portrait of #SuranneJones as #AnneLister in the BBC One drama #GentlemanJack. It was drawn by Nikki and included in the television-themed MIST0719 artpack collection.

#MIST0719 #Nikki #Gentleman Jack #Anne Lister #Suranne Jones #teletext

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awhilesince · 2 years

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Wednesday, 18 June 1823

6 1/2

12 50/60

Off from Ingleton to Chapel in the dale, 4 1/2 miles, at 8 – drove my aunt (the black mare) – George and the guide walked by the side the whole way –

An old woman shewed us Hurtle-pot – 6d [pence] admittance for my aunt and me – the place is enclosed with a highish wall. and locked up – descended 2 or 3 steps to the door – a great hole, almost like a jelly bag – a subterraneous passage on the right (looking down from the Entrance) thro’ which the water of the Greta enters the great hole or Hurtle pot – 15 or 16 yards deep in the passage – appeared a yard or 2 deep in the pot – a few very meagre trout occasionally caught in this place – ‘Tis not very bad getting down to the water’s edge in the pot – Jingle pot is only a little distant on the other side of the farm house (John Metcalf’s to whom Weathercote belongs) not enclosed – a long, deep, widish fissure thro which the Greta runs –

a shilling each admittance to Weathercote-cave – walled round and locked up – the owner a respectable looking farmer, shewed us it – descended a flight of steps nearly to the bottom – I scrambled down to the very bottom, and went behind the water which falls 75 feet – falls from just above Mahomet’s stone (as seen from above) not from below this stone as represented in Westall’s drawing – this waterfall beautiful – the spray by the reflection of the sun formed a fine iris – I, by going quite to the bottom, saw a double iris – but people generally go too late, after 12 p.m., and therefore see nothing of this effect which adds greatly to the beauty of the scene – near the fall on the left (looking towards it) quite at the bottom is a recess in the cavern in which I could hardly stand upright – Westall has drawn this too high – hence also issues water into the cave when there is a great deal of water – at these times there is also 2 more water vents, one on the right another on the left – Into the recess in the cavern one can go (creep) a hundred yards but there is too much water now – 2 years ago after a thunderstorm the water filled the whole of this Weathercote cave, and ran over at the top – holes made in it in the wall to let it pass – the Greta runs a mile underground before it comes to Weathercote, and then another mile underground before it gets into its channel on the surface – In favourable years as many as 200 people go to see Weathercote –

Left George to drive my aunt back to Ingleton, took John Metcalf as an additional guide, and at 10 40/60 proceeded forwards determined from what Metcalf said to go both to Gate Kirk and Greenside cave – ca[me] to Hars cave, a pretty little jumble among the rocks where the subterraneous Greta appears a little for a few yards, and then falls down to a lower and hidden course –

came to Gate-Kirk cave at 11 – our candle in the lantern had nearly burnt out – with some difficulty we lighted our 3 candles and crept thro’ the cave – 3 or 4 passages, perhaps 30 or 40 yards long, communicating with each other – could only stand upright in 2 or 3 places full of stalactites – crept thro’ all the rest of the way – the rocks sometimes very slippery and in the main passage obliged to crawl close to the water’s edge – the water perhaps a yard deep – there might be some deeper holes in the passage – Westall has made a pretty drawing of the entrance to this passage – 1/2 h[ou]r in Gate Kirk cave – a little farther on a little girl led the way thro’ a small narrow cavern called Boggard-hole, which neither of my guides remembered that we could creep thro’ – Metcalf said money had been formerly hid there – several fourpenny pieces had been found there – Gate Kirk cave a mile from Weathercote –

went forwards from GateKirk and at 12 1/2 got to lower Forsgill, a beautiful fifteen yards fall of the Greta down a scar something like Dowgill scar near Horton – a little higher up is what they call the upper Fors a pretty fall of 7 1/2 yards – just half the other but very pretty – at Greenside cave the spring head of the Greta, at 1 – what a pity we had nor match, nor tinder box – Metcalf fancied it full of water we might probably have gone a long way if we had had lights he said it was one or two hundred yards long – could stand upright very well – for the few yards we durst venture, no water in the cave, and no dropping from above – Going by these Forsgills was a roundabout, and we all agreed we had walked four long miles from GateKirk – all across the heather made it very fatiguing – saw the 2 covies of grouse, 15 or 16 in each – put up several pairs of old birds –

In mounting across the hill (the pastures and fell below Whernside) saw the little village of Winterskill below on the Greta where very fine trout are caught, weighing 2 lbs. – Gave Metcalf 1/2 crown for his Trouble (he had shewed us Westall’s drawings and recommended Hutton’s (the reverend Mr.) tour in these parts) and we parted at Greenside – these Forsgills are worth seeing – the best way would be to drive from Ingleton to Winterskill (along the Richmond road the road we travelled from Horton on Monday) and thence proceed nearly straight up to the falls, to Greenside cave, and then direct to the top of Whernside –

this was the route my guide James Greenwood and I took after Metcalf left us, and we were at the highest summit in about 20 minutes at 1 1/2 – we missed Chapel in the dale on Monday because the Chapel steeple is so like a large chimney, we mistook it for one, thought the building a house, and instead of turning down about the 22 milestone from Lancaster (about 2 1/2 miles from the house near Ribble head) we drove forward to near Ingleton – walked along the summit of Whernside –

fine view of Ingleborough, and of the road we came from Horton along deepdale, of Saleside etc etc on one side, and on the other of the rich valley (then said the guide there is not a richer valley in England) and town of Dent – the hills beyond Sedbury – Skiddaw – the sands beyond Lancaster etc –

crossed down the other side of Whernside to a cottage near Yordas cave § – got a great thing like a rake (without teeth) to stick candles in, – lighted our 7 candles at the lime-kilns close to the cave, and went in, 1/. each admittance (guides never paid for) at 2 1/2 – reconnoitered the whole cavern in about 1/4 hour – the bottom rather soft, sandy and towards the far end gravelly – here the stream passed thro’, and went along a narrow deepish channel we could not pursue – a drip from the top – fine, spacious, lofty vault – thickly encrusted with fine stalactites – a remarkably fine cavern to those who have never seen the caves in Derbyshire, Castleton etc – I began to feel the cavern rather cold, and gladly escaped to realms of day –

after walking about 1 1/2 mile on the road, turned to the left along the fields, (having just before noticed the springhead of the little river Skell close to the road on our left, and sunk considerably below us) and went across the Thornton-fors a beautiful fall of the Skell of 15 yards or perhaps more altogether; for there is a great tho’ divided fall before it comes to the main one – at this fors at 3 40/60 –

from here to Ingleton along the fields, the walk is most picturesque – the Skell runs along a deep glen wooded down to the bottom on each side, murmurs over its stony bed, and joins the Greta at Ingleton – as we walked along the high ground the finest view of Inglebro’ and his noble rocky abutments, rising in 3 huge steps of white ruggedness – Ingleton picturesquely situated – yet the stone walls along the sides of Inglebro’ rather spoil the majesty of his appearance – they bespeak the avarice and power of man to share and divide even nature’s deserts –

Rambled along Helks wood – peeping here and there at the Skell, here and there at Inglebro’ – gathered the most beautiful white dog rose I ever saw – and wild lilies of the valley – they grow in the beds 10 or 12 yards square – and there are many curious plants in this wood – belonged to a reverend Mr Foxcroft who had a nice place near (at the village of Thornton) – he died lately – left his widow the place for her life, then to his heirs – he was 1st cousin to Mrs Watkinson late of Ovenden, now of Crownest, a poor place, about 3 miles beyond Settle on the Ingleton road –

Got home at 4 1/2 – Dined at Ingleton – Roast shoulder of Excellent mutton – very good dinner Thirsty after so much walking (I had walked full 15 miles 4 or 5 of them over heather) the cold water chilled me – a large basin of hot boiled milk set me right again, and we were off at 7 20/60, and got to our old quarters, the Golden Lion Inn Settle, at 9 1/2 –

wrote out Sunday and part of Monday and went upstairs to bed at 12 – Very fine day – [E two dots O one dot, marking discharge from venereal complaint] –

after returning from Weathercote this morning my aunt had Percy in the gig, and made an attempt to meet me at Yordas cave, but the road was very hilly she was afraid of being too late, and turned back when she had got within a mile of the place –

§ this cave now belongs to Mr Peart the banker of Settle, he having lately purchased the property in which it is situated –

left margin:

Ingleton-caves, Weathercote, etc

Forsgill.

(fall of the Greta).

Whernside.

Yordas Yowdass cave.

Ingleton.

Helks-wood.

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/7/0028

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