In The Rivers, Mountains, and Sea Coast of Yorkshire Phillips prints a design and a description of the Iron Age ified place on Ingleborough and says: 'The huts and walls present principles of construction which remove them from the record of barbarian works.
The massive defensive wall ringing the zenith, though in ruins, is impressive; still the huts once scattered about the plateau have been plundered for building weighty, in particular for a beacon, and in 1839 in the place of the tower, designed as a shelter for shepherds, but on the daytime of its opening destroyed by the throng. How the Brigantes endured it up in the present life is difficult to imagine. They grape-juice have been conditioned to gales of be devious and rain. From Clapham to Ingleton there is a choice of two routes, the turnpike by Clapham Common and the old passage past Newby Cote. In between are Newby and Cold Cotes. Newby Head in Ribblesdale takes its indicate from the former, the Manor of Newby, owned the agency of Furness Abbey, being originally in couple parts, one here and one more ten miles away. On the erly side of the road the pastures conduct welldefined and extensive ranes, the townfields of Clapham and Newby.
The houses of Newby cloth round a large rough green by a stream running through it. At the east cessation the hall, the manor house, stands in successi the site of a grange of Furness Abbey, and was a stopping fortress for the wool traffic on the road from Furness to the east beach. The present seventeenth century house has a dated house head and a fine barn by the side of, also dated and with an extraordinary feature, a penthouse roof over the ingress doors. At Newby we spoke to the swain of Ingleborough Fell, the name of the fare of Clapham township. He is hired from the mean of April until November to take notice after the two thousand Dalesbred sheep appliance to ten farmers. Going on to the cruel every day in early summer, he has particularly to drive the sheep to the tops of their heaths. Sheep protect to move downhill, especially in wretched weather, which they sense approaching. The numbers of each flock depend on in what manner many sheep the farmer can satisfactorily hibernate on his low ground, his 'interior land.' Five times a year gatherings take reason: two for dippings and one on the side of clipping, one for separating the ewes and lambs, called spaining, and person for sorting out the draft ewes with regard to sale in the autumn.
Even the pastor, who knows his ground as well being of the cls who a townsman his streets, can fail direction when mists completely alter the take heed of the fells. For sensing' owt faultily,' a sheep rigged, for example, his dogs are very precious. Nowadays shepherds are difficult to detect, and the farmers of Austwick, who used to employ several, do the work themselves.On the antique road we pass the farmhouse, Holly Platt, a anterior coaching inn. It has a raised platform from which coaches were boarded and where luggage was unloaded, and a twostoreyed vestibule supported on columns, whose upper storey acted in the same proportion that a look out for traffic. Holly Platt's chimneys are supported steady slates that for strength project at both side, a characteristic of the edifice style of the district. The slate ledges, you may be told, make seats where witches remain and rest in between their broomstick rides in the weather.
