James Plumptre was an Evangelical clergyman and Cambridge don who, between the ages of 19 and 29, made several tours of Britain. (Journal of a Tour Through Part of North Wales, 1792; Journal of a Tour into Derbyshire, 1793; Journal of Pedestrian Tour by the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire to the Lakes and Home Thro Part of North Wales in the Year 1799; A Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey Through Some Parts of Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland to the Highlands of Scotland and Home by the Lakes and some Parts of Wales in the Summer of 1799; Memorandums Taken During a Five Weeks Tour in the Summer of 1800; Journal of a Tour to the Source of the River Can in July 1800). This book contains an edited selection of his accounts of these journeys, which offers a reminder of life in Britain 200 years ago.