Out & About …

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

Day: 28 August 2020

  • Maddy House Farm

    Maddy House Farm

    A while ago I came across these few intriguing paragraphs by A. J. Brown in his book “Striding through Yorkshire”. He is describing a walk from Commondale to Castleton: Instead of following the direct road to Castleton by the side of the beck – a feeder of the Esk – I followed a roundabout footpath…

  • Suggitt’s Bridge

    Suggitt’s Bridge

    A day for keeping local. With a flood alert issued for Stokesley last night, I had expected the river to be a little higher. Upstream the level had at least another 15 inches to rise before it would start to flow into the flood overflow bunds. The river has claimed many lives. A boy and…