Out & About …

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

Day: 10 May 2021

  • Loch an Eilein

    Loch an Eilein

    The “Lake of the Island”. And on the island a castle. A castle that was unsuccessfully stormed by Jacobite troops in 1690. Long after that battle, ospreys nested there. King George V came, soon after his coronation in 1911, especially to view them. Apparently the loch was dammed to create artificial floods to float logs…