Day: 14 August 2020

The 17th-century over the River Esk at Lealhoim, a village that developed around the first fordable crossing point downstream of the ravine Crunkley Ghyll. Lealholm’s most famous resident was John Castillo, the ‘Bard of the Dales‘, poet and stonemason. Born in Ireland in 1792 to Patrick Castlehowe, an itinerant Irish labourer, and Mary Bonas from…