Category: Easby Moor
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Not much to see this morning
With the cloud base at around 250m, a hot and muggy morning. I grabbed this shot on the climb up Easby Moor. Below the gate, the path descends across fields to Easby village. One point of interest in this photo is the gate post on the left, which is dated ‘1668’. Now it may well…
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St. Swithin’s Day
A damp run on the moors this morning. Light rain, hardly wetting the paving slabs on Coate Moor. Would it though, be enough to satisfy St. Swithin, who according to the legend, if it rained today (15th July), it will be the start of forty days of rain. He was bishop of Winchester Cathedral and…
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Disused quarry below Ward Nab
I once read that there is evidence of 12 sandstone quarries on the escarpment between Roseberry Topping and Capt. Cook’s Monument on Easby Moor. The stone was used for farms, barns and the miles of dry stone walls. A localised, small scale industry but having a massive impact on the character of the moors. On…
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Capt. Cook’s Monument
A quick amble up to Capt. Cook’s Monument at the end of a very wet day. No chance of a sunset, still drizzling and cloud. But the ling’s looking good. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Disused sandstone quarry, Easby Bank
I heard somewhere that there is evidence of twelve sandstone quarries along the escapement between Capt. Cook’s Monument and Roseberry Topping. The stone gained from these quarries would have been used for buildings in villages and farms down in the vale of Cleveland and for the miles of drystone walls that divide the moors. This…
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Capt. Cook’s Monument
“In memory of the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook F.R.S. A man of nautical knowledge inferior to none, in zeal prudence and energy, superior to most. Regardless of danger he opened an intercourse with the Friendly Isles and other parts of the Southern Hemisphere. He was born at Marton Oct. 27th 1728 and massacred at…
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Sunrise Over Capt. Cook’s
Inside all day gazing longingly over the sunny snow-covered Cleveland Hills. So an early run with the dog, no headtorch needed, and a lovely red sky to finish. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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A few moments later it was snowing
Well, it was white and it was falling from the sky. I’m not sure if the Inuit, with their fifty words for snow, would have one for the snow that fell over Capt. Cook’s Monument early this morning but the Scots do have a nice word flindrikin usually a light, flimsy garment but which was…
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Boxing Day Hunt
It’s becoming a tradition. Keeping an eye on the Boxing Day Hunt to see if they stray onto National Trust land. They appeared to have done last year and caused damage to the walkways in Newton woods. Admittingly that was in November; on a high profile day such as Boxing Day, I would be surprised…
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Remembrance Service, Easby Moor
The Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team’s very moving remembrance service at the memorial to the three servicemen killed in the 1940 plane crash on Easby Moor. 100 years ago today the Great War ended in Europe; a war that had lasted for 4 years and 97 days; a war that had claimed the lives of 9…