Tag: talus
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Newton-under-Roseberry
The village below Roseberry from which it takes its name although in the 19th-century it was often referred to as Newton-in-Cleveland. There is a suggestion however that it was originally called Newton-under-Othenesberg which evolved to Newton-under-Roseberry with the slurring of the ‘r’. The ton suffix in Newton derives from the Anglo Saxon meaning a farm…
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Victorian Graffiti
Roseberry Topping gained its distinctive shape on a May night in 1912 when an land slump caused the cliff to collapse. At the time the ironstone mining was blamedĀ but I understand that it is now thought to have been just a natural occurrence. But prior to 1912 the temptation to graffiti the summit sandstone was…