Out & About …

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

Tag: agricultural

  • Toad-under-a-harrow

    Toad-under-a-harrow

    At first, it’s all dreary drizzle, the kind that makes you question your decision to leave the comfort of indoors. But wait an hour, and the heavens part ways, allowing the sun to cast its golden glow upon Roseberry, turning it into a vision against the still brooding rain clouds. A rainbow always spruces up…

  • Flashback to 1948: ‘Yorkshire dale to begin new life’

    Flashback to 1948: ‘Yorkshire dale to begin new life’

    Bransdale Eastside and the farmsteads of Smout House (formerly Loft House and now the National Trust’s office and stores), Toad Hole, and Cow Sike. I came across an interesting article in the Yorkshire Post dated 27 November 1948, which gives a very good insight of what life was like in Bransdale in the first half…

  • The Tragedy of the Commons

    The Tragedy of the Commons

    Aireyholme was once the common pasture for the parish of Great Ayton. Parishioners had various rights on the land. Usually this would include the right right to pasture cattle, but Common Land may include other rights such as collecting wood, piscary, the right to fish and turbery, the right to cut turves of peat for…