Out & About …

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

Day: 13 October 2021

  • Whorl Hill, the lair of the Worm of Sexhow

    Whorl Hill, the lair of the Worm of Sexhow

    Autumnal sunshine, long shadows and a morning chill. A slight navigational error opened up this fine view of Whorl Hill, where there be dragons. Or rather one dragon, the worm of Sexhow. Thomas Parkinson wrote about it in his “Yorkshire legends and traditions” of 1888, but it was John Fairfax Blakeborough who suggested Whorl Hill…