Cranimoor

Just ten minutes earlier the “hog-backed sweep of Cranimoor” as Frank Elgee wrote was clear¹Elgee, Frank (1912). The Moorlands of North-Eastern Yorkshire: their natural history and origin. London: A Brown & Sons.. Time to head back to the car before the weather deteriorates.

I am on Cold Moor looking across the col of Little Raisdale, for want of a better name. At 432 m, Cringle Moor, to give the hill its more modern name, is the third highest hill in the North York Moors, after Round Hill on Urra Moor and Stony Ridge an Stockdale Moor.

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  Elgee, Frank (1912). The Moorlands of North-Eastern Yorkshire: their natural history and origin. London: A Brown & Sons.