SUMMARY OF TOUR THROUGH THE DALES Distances. Roads. No bad hills except on Buttertubs Pass—which is precipitous in parts—and in Richmond. Surface: usually good....

THE DALES In the motorist's life there are hours that can never be forgotten. It may be some hour of sunshine that haunts us, when the warm wind, we remember, was heavy with the scent of gorse or pungent with the stinging breath of the sea; or some hour when the road lay white and straight before us across a moor, and the waves of heather rolled away from us to the horizon in long curves of colour, and as we sped over the miles we seemed no nearer to the shore of the purple sea nor to the end of

SUMMARY OF TOUR ALONG THE COAST Distances. Roads Hills very steep and frequent near coast. Surface usually good. THE CLIFF, STAITHES. II THE COAST When one is approaching the coast of Yorkshire from the north, the important thing is to avoid the manufacturing towns of Stockton and Middlesbrough. This can be done by crossing the Tees at Yarm, and joining the splendid road that runs so straightly from this point to the sea. Those who have come from the dales will notice at once, even in Yarm, how

SUMMARY OF TOUR IN MID-YORKSHIRE Distances. Roads. No very serious hills except at Rievaulx. Surface: main roads excellent; by-roads poor. III CHIEFLY OLD CHURCHES It is hard to turn away from the sea so soon. If we find it too hard to bear we may stay at Scarborough for a couple of nights, and, taking a short run down the coast, may see Filey, and the white cliffs of Flamborough, and the beautiful priory church of Bridlington, in a few hours. Then we can turn westwards with less discontent, esp

SUMMARY OF TOUR IN THE SOUTH Distances. Roads. Usually good and level. IV YORK AND THE SOUTH No man knows the spell of York till he has approached it by road in the evening. Of all the fresh experiences that the motor-car has brought to us there are few from which the imagination gains so much as from this way of entering old and beautiful towns. We have too long accepted the roof of a railway station as our first view of such places. It is not an inspiring view. But to see York Minster from afa