The angler, desirous of a few hours' amusement, may here find good sport
at the fords, where the brooks come down and enter the river. Grayling
and trout are often caught, and chub, less in favour with fishermen, of
large size.
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If the tourist be a geologist he will find it pleasant to follow the
course of Linley Brook, on the banks of which he may find fish of ancient
date, in beds forming a passage from the Upper Ludlow to the Old Bed
Sandstone. He will be interested, too, in noticing the angles at which
the latter dip beneath the carboniferous strata, and these again beneath
the overlying permians.
A series of interesting dingles now occur, where the nightingale is heard
in May and June, through which whimpering streams come down, and where
Tom Moody hunted with the famous "Willey Squire." Tom's exploits have
been immortalised by Dibden in the song,--
"You all knew Tom Moody, the whipper-in, well,
The bell that's done tolling is honest Tom's knell."
A plain slab in Barrow churchyard covers Tom's remains, and simply
records the date at which he died. At