Out & About …

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

Day: 16 June 2021

  • Greenhow Moor, looking towards the old ironstone mine at Rud Scar

    Greenhow Moor, looking towards the old ironstone mine at Rud Scar

    On the 16th June 1814, the stagecoach ‘England Rejoice’ set off from Stockton on bound for Whitby. It was the return leg of a new service offering weekly return trips with York and Stockton. The coach had left the Freemason’s Tavern, Whitby at “exactly” six o’clock on the Monday morning bound for York. The journey…