Whernside

Whernside, one of the twin fells that we saw overlooking the head of

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

The great frozen Whernside stands up above it, and

First and Last Hilaire Belloc 1911

For on such seemingly small matters as these depended, not only the fate of the world, but of the only woman who could make the world at least worth living in for him -- and so he went to Whernside by the morning train after a long day's talk with Tom

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

During his brief but exciting experiences on board the _Ithuriel_, he had formed a real friendship for both Erskine and Castellan, and he had come to the conclusion that Denis's sister and aunt would be very much safer in the remote seclusion of Whernside than in a city which might within the next few days share the fate of Portsmouth and Gosport.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

Lennard had honestly kept the unspoken pact that had been made between them in the observatory at Whernside.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

No, his time would come in the awful moment when the fate of humanity would hang in the balance, and his place alike of honour and of duty was now in the equatorial room of the observatory at Whernside, watching through every waking hour of his life the movements of the Invader, that he might note the slightest deviation from its course, or the most trifling change in its velocity.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

He had done it, and that is why he bought the Hill of Whernside and about a thousand acres around it and built an Observatory on the top with which, to use his own words, he meant to lick Creation by seeing further into Creation than anyone else had done, and that is just what his great reflector had enabled his astronomer to do.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

Not even the great Whernside reflector was able to pick it up.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

It was on the day following the destruction of Dover that the news of the actual landing of the French and German forces had really taken place at the points selected by Castellan reached Whernside.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

It need hardly be said that no one went to bed for the remainder of that night at Whernside.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881