Down Ryton Water is a children's historical novel by Eva Roe Gaggin.
It tells the story of the Separatists of Scrooby and the Pilgrim Fathers through the first-person narrative of young Matt Over.
[1] The novel, illustrated by Elmer Hader, was first published in 1941 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1942.
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