Out & About …

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

Tag: Tudor

  • Bigod’s Rebellion and Nicholas Cockerell’s Loyalty Test in Commondale

    Bigod’s Rebellion and Nicholas Cockerell’s Loyalty Test in Commondale

    This morning I awoke to find a reminder in my calendar. It told me that on this very day back in 1536, King Henry VIII got tough on the Pilgrimage of Grace rebels. Now, naturally, I pondered where I could saunter off to today that might have a smidgen of relevance to that dusty tidbit.…

  • Making a mountain out of a mole-hill

    Making a mountain out of a mole-hill

    Cringle End, overlooking the tiny village of Kirkby. Or should that be Kirby? The name suggests some antiquity, ‘the farm by the church’, from the Old Scandinavian word for church kirkja, but the structure of the modern church is pretty much Georgian. That an earlier church did exist is without doubt. It was given by…