Out & About …

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

Day: 18 October 2020

  • Sleddale Farm

    Sleddale Farm

    A shaft of sunlight falls upon Sleddale Farm, an island of cultivation in a sea of dull heather moorland. The name itself means “a wide flat valley”. The farmhouse is probably Victorian but it’s been cultivated since at least the 16th-century. At the dissolution of Gisborough Priory, Henry VIII granted its grange, Sleddale Close, to…