Out & About …

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

Tag: merfolk

  • Calgary Bay

    Calgary Bay

    The Gaelic name for this idyllic beach of white sands is Cala ghearraidh, the ‘beach of the meadow’, which has been anglicised to Calgary. Like many other Scottish Highland communities, those at Cala ghearraidh were evicted, the land cleared and given over to sheep. This would probably have been in around 1817 when the Mornish estate…