Out & About …

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

Day: 19 January 2023

  • Tis the season for burning

    Tis the season for burning

    The annual burning of the heather moorland has begun — to the left of the house on the hill, up Badger Gill. Several of the tell-tale plumes could be seen on the way over into Bransdale. The house is Smout House, a mid-19th century farmstead, although until the 1952 edition of the O.S. map, the…