Out & About …

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

Category: Spaunton Moor

  • Rosedale Glass Works

    Rosedale Glass Works

    I’ve been meaning to explore the lower part of Rosedale for some time. especially the site of an Elizabethan glass works. A lovely Spring day with blue skies but the site of the works were a little underwhelming. The ruins of a building associated with a 19th-century sandstone quarry was much more interesting. On the…

  • The Fairy Stones

    The Fairy Stones

    The road east out of Hutton-le-Hole towards Lastingham crosses a bridge over Fairy Call Beck. Just north of the bridge are the Fairy Stones, a mosaic of stepping stones naturally formed from the Cornbrash bedrock. The Cornbrash Formation is a narrow Jurassic layer of rock, composed part limestone and part sandstone, that is rich in…