Out & About …

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

Day: 20 August 2021

  • Bilsdale-Midcable

    Bilsdale-Midcable

    Bilsdale is a dale of two halves. Or should that be two ends? At the top is the ‘hamlet’ of Bilsdale-Kirkham. Lower down is Bilsdale-Midcable, a ‘chapelry’, the name is a corruption of “Media Capella,” a middle or midway chapel, probably an ancient chapel-of-ease in the adjoining parish of Harome. In 1132 , at the…