Out & About …

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

Day: 18 December 2020

  • Aerial Ropeway Base, Cliff Rigg Wood

    Aerial Ropeway Base, Cliff Rigg Wood

    Standing proud in Cliff Rigg Wood, a concrete base that supported one of the steel trestles for an aerial ropeway that ran from Ayton Bank Ironstone Mine to sidings at the west end of Cliff Ridge where the ore was loaded into railway trucks. As the trestles were of a tripod design there would have…