Out & About …

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

Day: 1 January 2021

  • Greenhow Botton

    Greenhow Botton

    On the old 1857 O.S. map, this area is named as Greenhow Burton. Half a century later, it is mapped as Greenhow Botton. Such is the evolution of names over time. Or perhaps different surveyors misinterpreting the local dialect. The second word of the name derives from the Old Norse ‘Botn’ meaning a hollow. Off…