Author: Fhithich
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Whitewater Dash
A second day in the Back o’ Beyond as Wainwright put it. Discovered this superb waterfall. Probably the best I’ve seen in the Lake District. The photo only shows one of the several cataracts, about a quarter of the total drop. Higher up there was lying snow at 600m and a bitterly cold easterly wind.
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Skiddaw House
In the Lakes yesterday, Back o’Skiddaw. Stayed at Skiddaw House. No wifi, no mobile reception, no mains electricity, a great place.
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The Three Lords’ Stone
The Three Lords’ Stone, is so named after the three Lords: Duncombe of Helmsley, Marwood of Busby Hall and Aislesby, who had land in Scugdale. The boundaries of their respective estates met at the Stone. It is situated on the edge of a tumulus behind the present day Lord Stones Cafe. There is some inscription…
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Save School Farm
The penultimate day of the School Farm Development Appeal. The tenant farmers Mark and Kath had the chance to have their say today so I took the trip down to Northallerton in way of supporting them. If the appeal succeeds and the the development of School Farm for 113 houses goes ahead it will have…
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Searching for the Cook Family Cottage
What a change from yesterday. A bitterly cold wind. Helped out this morning with an archaeological survey in a small copse where it is thought the cottage was in which the young James Cook lived. The site is on National Trust land close to Aireyholme Farm where Cook’s father was employed as a farm labourer. Two surveys were…
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High Green, Great Ayton
Walked into the village this morning. Felt like spring.
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Ingleby Incline
Ingleby Incline, the familiar diagonal scar climbing the Cleveland Hills, was in operation between 1861 and 1929 and connected the North Eastern Railway at Battersby with the ironstone mines in Rosedale. It was a self acting incline, that is loaded wagons pulled descending under gravity pulled up empty wagons. Both rakes of wagons controlled by a…
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Chalybeate Stream
Orienteering today, at a small wood called Hutton Mulgrave just off the moors road to Whitby. It shows how serious I take orienteering nowadays as I carry my camera around – just in case. Before the 2nd control I had to cross this stream; called Eller Beck I discovered later from the OS map. The…
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Guisborough from Cliff Wood
One for the Guisborough ex-patriots. From the top of an old spoil heap from Belmont Ironstone Mine. The metal stanchions supported a ropeway used to haul the spoil up from the mine entrance near Hunter Hill Farm. This mine was owned by Bolchow, Vaughan and Company and operated from 1907 to 1921. In the eighties this…
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Roseberry from Ryston Bank
After yesterday’s Victor Meldew posting I felt the need to post something more pleasanter. Until not so long ago this view of Roseberry from the north east would not have been possible. The hillside as far as the fence that can just be made out beyond the crag was blanketed in forestry. It has since been cleared felled…