Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Category: Tarn Hows

  • Tarn Hows

    Tarn Hows

    If you were to look at a calendar of the Lake District, one of the months is sure to feature Tarn Hows. It is one of its most picturesque views. Yet it is entirely manmade. Until James Garth Marshall, whose father, John Marshall, had made the family fortune from his flax mills in Leeds, began…

  • Rose Castle

    Rose Castle

    Our home for the weekend. First documented in 1789-91 when William Bowe “slate getter of Rose Castle” registered the birth of his son, William, and daughter Ann in the parish register of Hawkshead. A getter was a quarryman and William would have worked in the nearby small slate quarry producing flagstones for flooring. The late…

  • Tarn Hows

    Tarn Hows

    The National Trust has been doing a lot of felling on their Tarn Hows property opening up new vistas but this is a small consolation for the change in the character of the tarn and woods from an iconic Lakeland wooded tarn to an area resembling the aftermath of a Tunguska event. The felling is…

  • Tarn Hows

    Tarn Hows

    One of the National Trust’s iconic properties. A place for which I have a lot of affection. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Tarn Hows

    Tarn Hows

    Monday mornings have always made me feel dysphoric. Not in the clinical sense but if Friday afternoons are full of euphoria because the weekend is near, then Mondays are back to reality. And the feeling is now ingrained, even though I no longer have to get up to go to work. In North Yorkshire, grey…

  • Rose Castle

    Rose Castle

    Near Tarn Hows and an opportunity to experiment with star trails in the dark skies of the Lake District away from the light pollution of town and cities. I only had enough battery power for the one trial. For the technically minded I took 30 photos of about 2 secs exposure then used a fancy…