A Yorkshire Aerolite

Abstract

FOLLOWING my recent description of the “Yorkshire Gypsey-Springs,” I may say that the great Yorkshire aerolite fell a century ago at the village of Wold Newton, where these springs first rise to light. Wold Newton is ten miles west from Bridlington Quay, no village on the Yorkshire Wolds having so much to interest the students of archæology and natural phenomena. Here, at Wold Cottage, lived Edward Topham, the retired “Tip-top Adjutant,” who, in 1787, established The World, and whose epilogue, spoken by Lee Lewis in the character of Molière's “Old Woman,” created him a star in the dramatic firmament. Two fields south-westerly from Wold Cottage, and protected on the north side by a plantation, you come to a flue-like column of bricks, which used to receive its washing with white lime every year. A yellow slab in the middle bears the following inscription:—