Out & About …

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

Tag: walkway

  • Lowcross Swangs

    Lowcross Swangs

    A pastoral scene looking across Lowcross Swangs to Barnabyside of Eston Moor. A ‘swang‘ is a Yorkshire term for a low-lying piece of grassland that is liable to flooding. To the left of the photo, the drainage is west to the River Tame and eventually the Tees; to the right, the flow is east into…

  • Course of the old Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway

    Course of the old Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway

    The Pinchinthorpe Walkway and Visitor Centre, on the route of the old Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway. The carriage is not authentic and is a recent purchase for use as an outdoor classroom. The Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway was built in 1853 to serve the ironstone mines at Codhill owned by Joseph Whitwell Pease, a leading…

  • Permissive Footpath, Newton Wood

    Permissive Footpath, Newton Wood

    I know this is not the most architecturally significant structure but it will soon be gone so I’ve taken this photo for posterity. Work started this week on upgrading the permissive footpath running along the bottom of Newton Wood. The two sections of wooden boardwalk, which at least twenty-one years old, will be replaced by…

  • Damaged walkway in Newton Wood

    Damaged walkway in Newton Wood

    Who did this then? A 500kg horse maybe?