means the ford paved with flat stones, whilst Studfold is Old English and implies that the Angles used enclosures there as folds for horses. It belonged to Furness Abbey, and was bought from Sir Arthur Darcy by Thomas Procter after the Dissolution.

Here the Ribble, winding along the bed of a postglacial lake, finds its course less constricted than in the rocky lower reaches. As we approach HortoninRibblesdale long slopes of pasture land rise to Penyghent. Newland House, one of the isolated farms backed by a lofty hill so characteristic of the dale, and a little farther on Dubcote, once a place of several dwellings, appear. Judging by the ranes behind the present solitary farmhouse at Dubcote, it is a settlement of great age. Lying in the Manor of Horton, it belonged to Iervaulx, and in the eighteenth century it formed part of the grammarschool endowment, as in fact it still does.

We reach Horton in Ribblesdale, where the road crosses Douk Gill Beck, turns a corner round the church and churchyard, and passes the Golden Lion Hotel. The village straggles on for half a mile to a second cluster of houses and an inn near two bridges, one over Brants Gill Beck and one over the Ribble, and turning left continues with houses placed haphazardly along it towards Horton station on the hillside, and after a sharp right turn at length ends at Blind Beck Farm.

Most views of Horton lead the eye on to Penyghent, a grand background to farmhouses, bridges, and ancient church whose squat grey tower so perfectly fits the scene. Yet, in contrast, on the opposite side of the valley behind the village a limestone quarry and lime works continually eat into the flank of Moughton. The houses of Horton reflect the development of the dale fine old farmhouses built by the yeoman, such as Blind Beck and Raw Farm near it, Victorian terraces of early railway times, and modern villas of the quarry era. With two hotels, a guesthouse, and private houses catering for visitors, Horton is a centre for geologists and for walkers. Footpaths and green roads that are some of the joys of Ribblesdale lead off in many directions.

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