THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Further on, we now behold a scene widely different from the grim moorlands lately traversed.  That is Kildale, one of the fairest valleys in England.  The romantic church and church-yard, the picturesque rocky heights and woods, the stream flowing westward, and abounding with trout, the cheerful farm-houses, amid fertile meadows, – these sights will well repay the lonely angler for walking an hour out of his track, and present a scene which will dwell for ever in his memory and love.  There, too, the poet hears sounds of music through the pine groves, dulcet and musical as the notes of the wind over Aeolian harps.

Ord/Sketches, 1845