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Excerpt from Picturesque History of Yorkshire, Vol. 1 of 3: Being an Account of the History It seems a natural thing, under Circumstances like these, to turn to the parish church and to its incumbent, or, failing him, to its clerk or sexton, for information and knowledge, perchance for erudition. Unfortunately the village church is not the fount of learning which it might easily be. It is not a difficult matter for the practised eye to construct the story of the church itself from its architecture, or to gain some notion of the history of the village from monuments, tombs, and the like. If its incumbent happens to be interested in history or archaology or topography, and is willing to impart his information, the result to the seeker after information is good, but one may not expect too much of even a country parson. As for the sexton, he is usually an unmilked cow, so far as contemporary parish gossip is concerned, but not versed in antiquarian lore. And so it often turns out the case that information about a place is not readily procurable at the place itself, and the traveller goes onward feeling s'ure that many things ought to have been told him which he must now delve for in the unpleasant atmos phere of that modern abomination, the public library. Here, surely, is a state of things which ought not to exist. It has been forced in upon me more than once during my journeyings about Yorkshire that the country parson would do his people great service and perform a work of real charity to travellers if he would compile a brief account of the history of his parish and church from the registers and papers which are usually at his disposal, have it printed on substantial cards, and cause the latter to be hung in prominent positions within the church itself, in the church porch, in the village schoolroom, and at the village inn. Such an account, were it the merest sketch or outline, would be of the greatest value to travellers passing through the county in search of information or on a tour of inspection, and would help the parishioners to gain some idea of the history of the bit of earth within whose narrow bounds their lives are spent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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