Agnes Burrow: Limestone Scaurs near Settle

Further to my article on the Burrow family in last year’s Journal, thanks to Tom Lord, another artistic work by A.E. (Agnes) Burrow has been brought to my attention. In an article by Henry Ecroyd Smith entitled ‘The Limestone Caves of Craven and their Ancient Inhabitants’ which appeared in the 1865 Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (New Series vol. 5) he writes “Of the higher reaches of the scaurs, a good idea may be obtained from the illustrative plate, reduced from a painting in oil by a local artist, Miss Burrow of Settle”. The scene is entitled Limestone Scaurs near Settle, Yorkshire and as you can see, depicts a romanticised Warrendale Knotts.