Out & About …

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

Tag: motte

  • Kildale Church

    Kildale Church

    Recent forestry work on Coate Moor has opened up new vistas including this view of Kildale Church. Officially, the Church of Saints Gregory and Cuthbert although St. Gregory is often left off with the church just being referred to as St. Cuthbert’s, a name which was actually used in older documents. There is some speculation…

  • On Hood Hill

    On Hood Hill

    Rain before seven, Lift before eleven.   So the old saying goes, but, ok the rain had stopped but the cloud still blanketted the 250m glacial outlier of Hood Hill. We climbed the hill to explore the earthworks of a medieval fortification, a motte and bailey castle. And to talk of the legends of witches…

  • Sir John de Graham’s Castle

    Sir John de Graham’s Castle

    One of the best example of a motte and bailey castle I’ve seen. Unusually square shaped, the depth of the motte can be gauged by the wooden steps built to preserve the slope with the actual castle would have been timber-framed. It would have had commanding views over the Carron Valley, a viewed obscured today…