Roseberry-topping
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PLACES AND FAMILIES
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Popular Rhymes And Nursery Tales
"Not far from Gisborough is Ounsberry-hill, or Roseberry-topping, which
mounts aloft and makes a great shew at a distance, serving unto sailors
for a mark of direction, and to the neighbour inhabitants for a
prognostication; for as often as the head of it hath its cloudy cap on,
there commonly follows rain, whereupon they have a proverbial rhyme,
When Roseberry-topping wears a cap,
Let Cleveland then beware a clap.
Near to the top of it, out of a huge rock, there flows a spring of
water, medicinable for diseased eyes; and from thence there is a most
delightful prospect upon the valleys below to the hills above."--Brome's
Travels, 8vo. Lond. 1700.