Out & About …

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

Tag: War Memorial

  • War Memorial, Skelderskew Moor

    War Memorial, Skelderskew Moor

    On the eve of a General Election, it is perhaps time for a moment’s reflection on how our 21st-century society has benefitted from the bravery of the young men who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country over a hundred years ago. Robbie Leggett and Alf Cockerill, the two names on the memorial, were boyhood…

  • Scotch Corner Chapel

    Scotch Corner Chapel

    I’m currently reading “The Plot” by Madeleine Bunting. It is the story of her father’s obsession with an acre of land adjoining the old Hambleton drovers’ road as it descends from the high moors to Oldstead and the Vale of York. Although I’ve passed by before, it is not an area I know that well.…