Out & About …

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

Tag: Hambleton Street

  • Ghosts on the Hambleton Road — Echoes of Drovers and a Lost Farmstead

    Ghosts on the Hambleton Road — Echoes of Drovers and a Lost Farmstead

    High Mossy Grange, just off High Lane, that’s the local name for this section of Hambleton Road, an ancient route snaking from the southern reaches of England to bonny Scotland. Used to be a post-medieval farmstead, but now High Mossy Grange has all but been wiped off the map. What’s left is this patch of…

  • Hambleton Street

    Hambleton Street

    I find this track, between Sneck Yate with Square Corner, to be one of most tedious on the North York Moors. It follows the old drovers’ route between Scotland and the south of England. The term ‘street’ may suggest a Roman origin but although the Romans may well have used it (there have been Roman…