In asking the way to Nappa from the village of Askrigg, we were told
to follow a "gentleman with a flock of sheep who was going up that way"; but as the distance was the matter of a couple of miles—and Yorkshire miles too, we preferred to follow the telegraph poles, which,
after all, was more expeditious and quite as reliable. W
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e give this as an instance of the ordinary pace at which things move
in these parts; and perhaps it is as well, otherwise the old Hall built by
William Taunton in 1678 (so it says on the door), with its upper
balcony of wood looking upon the quaint old market-cross where the
bull-ring used to be, might have given way to co-operative stores or
some new hideous building.