Out & About …

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

Tag: dale

  • Oakdale

    Oakdale

    A weathered sign: “Oakdale Reservoir a source of Yorkshire Water” but now decommissioned and transformed into a wildlife lake, passed by The Cleveland Way. And a memory evoking view. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Newlands Valley

    Newlands Valley

    Newlands Beck meandering down the dale from its head below the appropriately named 753m high summit Dale Head. In the distance the prominent Causey Pike, a tortuous climb from this direction. The spoil heaps far left are from Goldscope Mine, one of the earliest mines in the area documented back to 1564, the year Shakespeare…

  • Farndale

    Farndale

    A quiet and peaceful Farndale, on an overcast morning. If the 1960s plan to flood the dale by the building of a reservoir had come to fruition this scene would have looked totally different. The plan to provide a source of drinking water for the cities of Hull and Sheffield would have covered 400 acres,…

  • Wasdale Head and the Scafells

    Wasdale Head and the Scafells

    At 582m high Middle Fell is an unassuming hill overlooked by mighty neighbours. A craggy knoll just down from the summit offers unobstructed views of Wast Water and to the North East Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England, and Sca Fell separated by the high col of Mickledore. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Chapel Stile, Great Langdale

    Chapel Stile, Great Langdale

    A scorching day in the Lakes. Folks at Langdale Gala swelter below. A very slight breeze up high. Another hot day awaits. A good time for the car to konk out. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Bell heather, Danby Rigg

    Bell heather, Danby Rigg

    The first of the heathers are out. Bell heather, such a deep rich colour, my favourite. Ling, which will cover the moors by August is much lighter, more of a lilac. The third type of heather found on the moors is Cross-leaved heath with pale pink flowers. The ditch on the right is part of…

  • Huthwaite Green

    Huthwaite Green

    Also known as Heathwaite, names which are as Yorkshire as a name can be, the ‘thwaite’ element coming from the Old Scandinavian word for a clearing: thveit. Heathwaite means a high clearing and Huthwaite a hill clearing. This view over the buttercup meadows of Scugdale is a familiar sight for walkers on the Cleveland Way,…

  • Troutbeck Valley

    Troutbeck Valley

    What wonderful freedoms we enjoy having access to the hills and countryside enshrined in our Open Access legislation and Rights of Way system. The Scottish Access Code or Sweden’s Allemansrätt are, I admit, very enviable but we should treasure and protect our hard won rights to enjoy the sights and sounds of the outdoors. This…

  • Fusedale

    Fusedale

    A new dale bagged. I’ve never been in Fusedale before, Not counting Howtown, of course, the hamlet at the foot of the dale on the shore of Ullswater. Fusedale’s sheep show no fear and never moved as I passed, just continued chewing, Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Bransdale

    Bransdale

    A pair of Scots Pines in Bransdale. Scots pines are the only truly native pines in Britain although the tree was believed to have become extinct in England about 300–400 years ago so these two are the result of re-introductions possibly self-seedlings from the nearby Barker Plantation on Groat Hill. It is only in Scotland,…