Out & About …

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

Category: Tanfield

  • Causey Arch

    Causey Arch

    Prior to the late 17th-century, transportation of materials across the country was slow and difficult. Either by horse drawn carts or teams of ponies. More forward thinking industrialists were developing wagon-ways, horse-drawn first with wooden rails and rollers, then with flanged iron wheels. In the 1720s, when coal-owners were considering exploiting the coal fields below…