Category: North York Moors
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Where am I?
The La Sportiva Lake District Mountain Trial, to give it its official title, is my favourite race, well to be honest nowadays it is my only race. It certainly takes you to some of the less frequented parts of the Lake District. One of those magic moments today, navigating for an hour through the clag…
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Coal Tit
An early stroll in the sunshine with the dog. This little tit caught my eye, performing acrobatics on the downy seed heads of a thistle. It didn’t stay long before dashing off only to return a moment later; repeated this several times in the brief period I watched. Constantly on the go. I’m pretty sure…
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Potters Ridge
On Codhill Heights looking up towards Potters Ridge. A precarious cairn. One of a pair, both newly built. First time I have seen them. The moorland is part of the 3,460 acres of grouse moor owned by the Baron Gisborough whose farms received £89,278.37 under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2016. Open Space Web-Map…
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Gribdale Terrace
An evening stroll up Capt.Cook’s Monument hoping to catch a spectacular sunset. Instead, a diffuse grey blanket gradually smothered the sun. The white cottages of Gribdale Terrace, built for whinstone miners, on the far left overlooked by Roseberry Topping. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Carlton Bank Trig Point
A view of Odin’s hill, Roseberry Topping, sandwiched between the trig point and old parish boundary stone on the highest point of Carlton Bank. The summit, at 408m above sea level is the third highest point on the North York Moors. Today it is generally known as Carlton Moor but has also been mapped at…
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The Heads, Great Fryup Dale
I always like to make a connection with my daily photo with any words accompanying it. Sometimes, most times, I choose my words after taking the photo. Other times I know what I want to write and go out seeking a photo. So I was over in Great Fryup Dale this morning and struggling to…
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V-ewes of Roseberry
We’re art, a drove of sheep without a shepherd, and I am a wolf in sheep’s clothing. So where are you being driven? Nowhere! Then you must be a flock. And what big teeth you don’t have, for a wolf. No, we’re a hurtle or a trip making eyes at you, baa none. Why that’s…
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Sunley’s Daughter
A couple of weeks ago I posted about a fascinating film made in the 1970s by Barry Cockcroft for ITV television called “The Children of Eskdale”. Another film by Cockcroft and available on the BFI website is “Sunley’s Daughter”. Also set in the early 70s it is the story of Mary Sunley, a young girl…
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One of The Three Sisters
A late evening view across to Easby Moor from above Turkey Nab. The 1857 Ordnance Survey map names this spring as The Three Sisters (one of). Her other two sisters are each 500m away to the north and south-east. This spring now flows into a covered concrete tank surrounded by a rickety fence but the…
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Let’s Learn Moor with the BASC
When the Police seize property as a result of criminal investigations or a court orders the confiscation of property, it is auctioned off (assuming, of course, it cannot be returned to its rightful owner) and the money placed in the Police Property Fund. Grants are then awarded from the fund to local community and voluntary…