Tag: Landslip
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A fine day for a stroll up Roseberry
Roseberry was busy with many taking advantage of the November blue skies. The rockface looks as though there’s been a bit of a rockfall with patches clean of weathering. I haven’t heard of anything though. The main crag was exposed in the major rockfall which occurred in May 1912 when the shape of the summit…
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White Hill
A large swathe of clear felling on White Hill. It may be a coincidence but the clearance is almost exactly on the disturbed ground of the 1872 landslip when the Stokesley to Helmsley road was covered to a depth of up to 24 feet with rocks, shale and soil. The argument about who should repair…
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Clay Bank – the Great Landslip of 1872
In 1872 a great landslip occurred on Clay Bank covering the main Stokesley to Helmsley road to a depth of up to 24 feet and a length of 250 yards with rocks, shale and soil. The aftermath was a legal action before the Queen’s Bench of the High Court of Justice. At the time upkeep of roads was the…