Out & About …

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

Month: October 2019

  • Roseberry

    Roseberry

    It was raining when I set off and ten minutes before I took this, I was in cloud on the summit. And then the sun came out. Turned out nice. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Badger Gill

    Badger Gill

    Some pesky rabbits took me to Badger Gill in Bransdale. An intake field for one of the National Trust’s tenant farmers was being made rabbit proof. Looking upstream from the limit of Trust property is a scene of devastation. Bransdale Forest, comprised of various pockets of trees scattered throughout the dale, was planted in the…

  • On Carr Ridge

    On Carr Ridge

    A wander up Carr Ridge with the dog on a glorious end to the afternoon after another wet morning. Super clear views across the Tees plain to the foothill of County Durham. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • On Hood Hill

    On Hood Hill

    Rain before seven, Lift before eleven.   So the old saying goes, but, ok the rain had stopped but the cloud still blanketted the 250m glacial outlier of Hood Hill. We climbed the hill to explore the earthworks of a medieval fortification, a motte and bailey castle. And to talk of the legends of witches…

  • Ingleby Greenhow Church

    Ingleby Greenhow Church

    I am not into religion but churches are usually the oldest building in a village so they have a certain fascination. St Andrew’s Church is odd-looking, low and squat with a bell tower that looks out of place. According to the inscription over the door, the church was rebuilt in 1741 but some of the…

  • Course of the old Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway

    Course of the old Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway

    The Pinchinthorpe Walkway and Visitor Centre, on the route of the old Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway. The carriage is not authentic and is a recent purchase for use as an outdoor classroom. The Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway was built in 1853 to serve the ironstone mines at Codhill owned by Joseph Whitwell Pease, a leading…

  • The Carrs

    The Carrs

    An uncommon view of Roseberry across the flatlands of Moreton Carr and Upsall Carr but one that would be easily recognised by commuters on the A171 Guisborough By-Pass. The ‘Carr’ element of these names comes from the Old Scandanavian word kjarr meaning a marshy area, giving an insight into the terrain in medieval Cleveland. Open…

  • Undercliffe Hall

    Undercliffe Hall

    I have posted many times about the whinstone quarry at Cliff Rigg near Great Ayton. It was a major industry for the village. The whinstone was an extremely hard basalt rock and used mainly for road surfacing. It could be knapped into setts and it was frequently said that the streets of Leeds were cobbled…

  • Little Fryup Dale

    Little Fryup Dale

    It’s been a few months since I’ve been up on the Heads, that elongated hill separating the two Fryup Dales. This is the head of the smaller dale. The buildings on the far left are named on the map as Fairy Cross Plain. There are two cottages, one is relatively modern but the other has…

  • Whitestone Cliff and Gormire Lake

    Whitestone Cliff and Gormire Lake

    Looking down onto Lake Gormire near Sutton Bank. A place of myth and legend. In the distance is the elongated Jurassic outlier, Hood Hill with where Druids were said to have made sacrifices. Some say Lake Gormire was made when an earthquake swallowed up a whole town. The roofs of the houses and chimneys can…