Out & About …

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

Day: 4 February 2023

  • Abandoned sandstone quarry near Turkey Nab

    Abandoned sandstone quarry near Turkey Nab

    A pair of cairns have been constructed on the nab itself, where once a gibbet stood, last used so I understand, in 1729, when Willam Parkinson was hung there in chains. My notes say that Parkinson was tried at York assizes for the murder of a Scottish drover at Great Broughton. He was brought back…