Out & About …

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

Month: February 2019

  • Roseberry Rainbow

    Roseberry Rainbow

    Moments after being caught in a shower. The rainbow was a complete semi-circle but the camera lens was not wide enough to fit it all in. One of those magic moments. A rainbow at night, Fair weather in sight. A rainbow at morn, Fair weather all gorn. Ok, not the best of poems and seemingly…

  • Hummersea Bank

    Hummersea Bank

    Another vernal day. Parked at Skinningrove and went on an exploration of the Loftus Alum workings. Jogging along the Cleveland Way along Hummersea Bank the dog became agitated at something on the rocks far below. It’s not the first time she has behaved this way and I usually discovered there were seals about. I looked…

  • Back of Cringley

    Back of Cringley

    Or Cringle Moor to give it its modern name. I prefer the old although an even earlier name was Cranimoor. A little-used path from the ruined farmstead of Clough up to Brian’s pond on Bilsdale Moor West. The stone from the buildings was used in the construction of Chop Gate village hall. A fate not…

  • Westworth Reservoir

    Westworth Reservoir

    Had a look around the old Westworth Reservoir. This was one of my regular jaunts when I lived in Guisborough in the 1980s. Now just a puddle, it was a proper reservoir then, over 15,000 square yards, although no longer in use. Very popular with the local lads for swimming if I recall. A public…

  • Capt. Cook’s Monument

    Capt. Cook’s Monument

    “In memory of the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook F.R.S. A man of nautical knowledge inferior to none, in zeal prudence and energy, superior to most. Regardless of danger he opened an intercourse with the Friendly Isles and other parts of the Southern Hemisphere. He was born at Marton Oct. 27th 1728 and massacred at…

  • Dale Head

    Dale Head

    It is actually wrong to describe this valley as Ryedale. By convention, the source of a river is its longest tributary which puts the source of the River Rye at the appropriately named Rye Head near to the Swainby Shooting Hut on Whorlton Moor. The ruined Dale Head overlooks Wheat Beck, a shorter tributary. It’s…

  • Excavation of James Cook Senior’s Cottage

    Excavation of James Cook Senior’s Cottage

    An archaeological dig is currently underway in Great Ayton. For those of you who are not familiar with the story, the cottage of James Cook, the father of the famous explorer, Captain James Cook, was sold in 1934, dismantled stone by stone and shipped to Australia where it was re-erected in the Fitzroy Gardens in…

  • The Heads

    The Heads

    And today’s Feast Day is for Cædmon.

  • Holy Well Gill

    Holy Well Gill

    I discovered this little waterfall last Tuesday in a night navigation event. Under torchlight, it seemed a lot bigger and oranger from the mineral salts deposits. I just had to have a return for a visit in daylight. The event wasn’t exactly my best ever, having failed to find one control, I ended up so…

  • Roseberry from the old railway at Bank Foot

    Roseberry from the old railway at Bank Foot

    An afternoon stroll along the course of the old mineral railway to Rosedale. Storm Erik has been and gone, leaving a cloudless sky. Super views of Roseberry in the distance. Just realised I didn’t get a Model Release Form. Hope I don’t get sued. Open Space Web-Map builder Code