Out & About …

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

Day: 21 July 2021

  • The manuring of Kildale’s fields

    The manuring of Kildale’s fields

    The lush fields of the Kildale are the result of generations of cultivation. Under his tenancy agreement, the farmer at Percy Rigg Farm (or Viewley Hill Farm as it was formerly known in the 19th-century) would have been under certain conditions to maintain and improve his fields. He “will lay and spread … in each…