Out & About …

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

Day: 16 October 2021

  • Scarth Nick

    Scarth Nick

    In the 18th and 19th centuries, Scottish drovers breasted this cleft in the Cleveland Hills driving their cattle to southern markets along the Hambleton Drove Road after fording the Tees at Yarm. It has probably used in prehistory, by the Romans and in medieval times. Today’s tarmac road winds up the climb from Swainby taking…