Out & About …

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

Tag: country park

  • Lowcross Swangs

    Lowcross Swangs

    A pastoral scene looking across Lowcross Swangs to Barnabyside of Eston Moor. A ‘swang‘ is a Yorkshire term for a low-lying piece of grassland that is liable to flooding. To the left of the photo, the drainage is west to the River Tame and eventually the Tees; to the right, the flow is east into…

  • Blossom Pond, Hetton Lyons Country Park

    Blossom Pond, Hetton Lyons Country Park

    Trying to navigate my way around Hetton Lyons Country Park using the 1922 6″ to the mile Ordnance Survey map.  A lot has changed. The old surface workings of the Hetton Colliery. The heart of the colliery was to the south of the Durham, Elvet & Murton Branch railway, now a walkway/cycle path. An industrial…