Out & About …

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

Category: Vale of Mowbray

  • White Gill

    White Gill

    In the Tabular Hills, limestone country in the southern half of the North York Moors and a view west over the Vale of Mowbray to the Yorkshire Dales, supposedly one of the “finest views in all of England”.  White Gill, the stream at the bottom of a deep valley with no name, and downstream, the village of Kepwick.…

  • Scorton

    Scorton

    Headed west for a change. A cycling foray into the flat farmlands of the Vale of Mowbray. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), the renown architectural writer, described Scorton as having “a rather large, somewhat shapeless green”. But it is an unusual green in the fact that it is raised higher than the rest of the village. There are only two such…