Out & About …

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

Tag: river

  • River Kinder

    River Kinder

    Some may have noticed I didn’t post yesterday. While Harrogate and the Yorkshire Dales were basking in sunshine watching the cycling world championships (this was Saturday!), 50 miles away, west of the Pennines, we were suffering twenty-four hours of torrential rain. I managed to take half a dozen photos with my phone of mist-covered hills…

  • River Leven, Little Ayton

    River Leven, Little Ayton

    “Sweet vale of Leven! how calm is thy stream, Gliding onwards in beauty like hour’s youngest dream.” Attributed to John Walker Ord by J. Fairfax-Blakeborough in Great Ayton, Stokesley & District, past and present, 1901. The bridge was built sometime in the late 19th-century by The Stockton Forge Makers of Stockton-on-Tees who produced castings and…

  • Rogie Falls

    Rogie Falls

    Needed some exercise on the journey south so parked up at Torrachilty Forest just north of Inverness. Came across the popular tourist attraction of Rogie Falls. Quite impressive, on the river Black Water or Alltan Dubh. Eas Rothagaidh is the Gaelic name for the waterfall with the ‘th‘ and ‘dh‘ silent so I guess the…

  • Suilven

    Suilven

    A wander up to Fionn Loch, the location for a classic photo of Suilven but the top was in cloud. On the way down I looked back and it had cleared. Ah well, that’s the way it goes. It is thought the name Suilven comes from a contraction of the Norse sulur meaning a pillar…

  • The Lake, Studley Park

    The Lake, Studley Park

    John Aislabie first began to create the landscaped gardens of Studley Park around 1716 but it was only after he retired from Parliament under dubious circumstances that he was able to devote fully to the task. During his time as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Aislabie guided the bill through the House of Commons whereby the…

  • Confluence of the Ripon Canal with the River Ure

    Confluence of the Ripon Canal with the River Ure

    At the height of the boom of canal and later railway construction in the 18th and 19th centuries all railways and canals had to have its own Act of Parliament to ensure purchase of land and rights of way. Even the right to navigate rivers had to be the subject of an Act of Parliament.…

  • Cora Linn

    Cora Linn

    Just above the dramatic Falls of Clyde. William Wallace country. His cave where he hid after fleeing from the English is said to overlook the Cora Linn. Along with several other locations throughout Scotland. Linn means a pool and Cora is said to be a daughter of Malcolm II who reigned in the eleventh century,…

  • Skelton Beck

    Skelton Beck

    Valley Gardens, Saltburn, at the confluence of Saltburn Gill with Skelton Beck. A seemingly slow and lazy stream just before it passes under the road bridge to meander across the sands into the North Sea. Can this really be the stream mentioned in an 1853 book (The Topographer and Genealogist Vol. II, edited by John…

  • Old Meggison

    Old Meggison

    Usually, mornings are my best time of the day. Of late, however, my morning stroll has been in the damp and cold followed by an ever brightening day long after my post lunch torpor and sluggishness has set in. Another revisit today. Old Meggison, a lovely little waterfall on the River Leven in Kildale. It’s…

  • Seal Sands

    Seal Sands

    The first site I worked on after moving to the area in 1973. The petrochemical complex was built on land “reclaimed” from inter-tidal mudflats much to the dismay of conservationists as the developments destroyed the rich habitat of the Tees estuary. The reclamation had been going on since industrial Teesside began. By the turn of…