Out & About …

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

Category: Oldstead

  • Mount Snever Observatory

    Mount Snever Observatory

    To modern ears, the word ‘observatory’ is associated with telescopes and distant stars but the Mount Snever Observatory was built with the intention of viewing nature in all its glory. The 35 feet high belvedere tower is a somewhat austere structure, built in 1838 by John Wormald of Oldstead Hall to commemorate Queen Victoria’s coronation…