Out & About …

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

Tag: trough

  • Moorsholm Docks

    Moorsholm Docks

    Right on the High Street of this delightful little village that just missed out on the ironstone mining activities of the rest of East Cleveland, is a row of six sunken sandstone water troughs that have become known as the Moorsholm Docks. Probably dating from the 19th-century they are fed by piped water from a…

  • St. Mary’s Well

    St. Mary’s Well

    I have called this St. Mary’s Well. It is a name referred to by the archaeologist Roland Close in his report on his excavation of the Iron Age huts on Percy Rigg. Unfortunately, I have not been able to read his report published before the days of the internet. A copy has been requested but…