Month: November 2019
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Roseberry and Black Bank
Odin’s hill from Ayton Bank. On the right is Little Roseberry with Black Bank almost clear-felled of its coniferous plantation. It’s barely ten years ago but I find it hard to remember what it was like. A tour of the escarpment on a glorious morning with blue skies. Lower down the fields are a bit…
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Old weir for Marske Corn Mill
There was a lot of water coming down Skelton Beck this morning tumbling over the ruined weir built to provide a head of water for the long-demolished Marske Corn Mill a few hundred yards downstream. It is interesting that the mill took its name from a village two and a half miles away along the…
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Gormire Lake
A lap of Gormire this morning. Rain all the way down, and all the way back, but the sun broke over on the unfathomable lake, although Wikipedia says it’s 21 feet. Enough to cover the reputed village that lies at its bottom next to the gateway to hell. I saw none of its infamous leeches,…
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Quaker Graveyard, Great Ayton
Quakerism began to attract support in the North York Moors soon after its emergence after the Civil war in the mid-17th-century. Almost every dale would have its populace often sizeable and with their industrious philosophy, many soon became highly successful farmers. There is a record of George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, visiting Danby Dale.…
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Cod Beck Reservoir
I’m not sure if this is going to work. If it does you should see a link to a FaceBook album of some photos of the dam under construction. I’m not sure if it’ll work if you are not a member of that FaceBook group. Hint: click on the link under “12 – Cod Beck…
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River Leven and the Hinmers Congregational Chapel
A few tentative steps down the village. With a heightened sense of awareness of, while not major obstacles, they are nevertheless unwelcome. Slippy rotting leaves, inconsiderate parking blocking half the pavement, dog crap, indeed the mere anxiety of a frisky dog even if on a lead. “He won’t hurt you”. A realisation of the problems…
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Cove Harbour
I guess I am incredibly lucky. Stopped off at Cove, a picturesque little harbour, just east of Dunbar. Nearing high tide the crashing waves were very tempting. I was leaning my elbows on the harbour wall when I took this. It was the last photo I took with my little Olympus camera. Just a small…
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Coquet Island
An RSPB reserve about 1½ km offshore at Amble. Apparently it’s home to a colony of Roseate Terns. In the 7th-century the monk Cuthbert, living as a hermit, met Ælfflæd, Abbess of Whitby here. The island’s isolation appealed to many later medieval hermits and became a Benedictine monastic cell linked to Tynemouth Priory. The tower…
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Durridge Bay
I must be something of a thalassophile at heart because I do enjoy running along the coast, even though memories of being helplessly seasick are so vivid. But then a beach is also the worst place to run. Time never passes. The beach at Durridge Bay on the Northumberland coast is a 7 mile stretch…
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Tripsdale
In Bransdale on a dull, damp morning installing some rabbit fencing for the National Trust. Digging a trench to bury some chicken wire. That’ll stop the rabbits burrowing under. Up to my ankles in mud. The rabbits would need some serious snorkelling equipment. All not very photogenic so here’s a picture from yesterday. Tripsdale viewed…