L30/21/3/9

Journal of a Northern Tour (see also L30/9a/7):

1755

From: 1755 To: 1755

Set out from Wrest with the chaise “well victualled with the necessaries of Life on a long expedition”, lay the first night at Mr. Heathcote's at Stocken, the next at Ferrybridge. Then to Ripon and Mr. Aislabie's. Discusses Studley at length and critically, but Fountains Abbey “deserves all that can be said of it” though it is poorly looked after. Enjoyed country on the way to Durham, but did not admire the Cathedral, “the Pillars of the Great Isle are the Thickest and Clumsiest I ever saw”. Country changes after Durham, coal pits and “Colliers” houses as black as themselves. Newcastle “the worst I saw” with dirty inhabitants and boys and girls without shoes and stockings. Alnwick Castle “place of strength more than magnificence”. Through Berwick and Dunbar to Edinburgh, “worst and dirtiest in the world”. Described streets and buildings; the country round pleasant, Dalkieth House and Park and Hopetoun admired. Journey ended at Taymouth.

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Durham, Edinburgh