Tag: cliff
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St. John’s Head, Hoy
According to the Tourist Information Board at Moaness Pier, at 1,128′ high St. John’s Head is the most vertical sea cliff in Britain. I’m not sure what that actually means, certainly in terms of height The Kame on Foula and Conachir on St. Kilda are higher. But this is one hell of a drop. I…
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Roulston Scar
The southwestern corner of the North Yorkshire Moors. 900 feet above sea level. To the north, the Hambleton Hills extend to the summit of Black Hambleton, at an altitude of 1289 feet. To the east, the moorlands stretch to Rydale at Helmsley, moorlands that are now predominately cultivated or forested. Due west, across the Devilâs…
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Saltburn’s White Elephant
One for posterity. I may be wrong but I think this is “the large pillared shelter known locally as âThe White Elephantâ” according to one website, although many communities use that name for structures that seem to have no real value. The name alludes to the king of Siam’s habit of making a present of…
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Highcliff Nab
“Overhanging the romantic and picturesque vale of Gisborough, a bold prominent rock rears its reverend head, hoary with mosses and lichens, and rent into vast chasms by the storms and tempests of centuries. It is skirted to the north with rich plantations of fir and venerable forests of oak; towards the south it is surrounded…
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Huntcliff
The prominent landmark east of Saltburn-by-the-Sea. An hour before low tide. This was once the site of a Roman signal station which main purpose was to look out for pirates raiding settlements along the east coast. It comprised a stone turret 15-metre square with walls 2.3-metre thick suggesting it must have been quite a tall…
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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…
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Saltburn Sands
A bracing stroll along the beach at Saltburn. This morning’s Inshore Waters forecast for Berwick-on-Tweed to Whitby:- Wind: West or northwest 5 or 7 occasionally gale 8 at first, backing southwest 4 to 5, increasing 6 or 7 later. Sea State: Moderate, occasionally rough, becoming slight or moderate later. Weather: Wintry showers, rain later. Visibility:…
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White Mare Crag
Perhaps better known as Whitestone Cliff. The Calcareous Grit crag is supposed to have formed in the eighteen century when the steep scarp slope slumped, an occurrence recorded by the Rev. John Wesley, the Methodist preacher, in his journal: “1755. On Thursday, March 25th, many persons observed a great noise near a ridge of mountains…
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Great Fryup Head
A vague plan hatched. Mooch up to the head of the dale through Canon Atkinson’s undercliff. End up at Yew Grain, the waterfall on the left. But The Hills proved far too interesting so this is as far as we got. The waterfall on the right is Spa Dike. Arising out of George Gap Spa,…
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Hold my hand while we jump off this cliff
“Letâs jump off this cliff – itâll be fun! A right laugh!â urged all the people (well, I mean just over half of those who had bothered to speak up at all). I peered down at the rocks; it was a long way to fall. I said, âThis cliffâs more than three hundred feet high…