Author: Fhithich
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Ruin, Great Ayton Moor
A disused concrete water tank below the escarpment of Great Ayton Moor. Probably provided the water supply to the long demolished farm which about four hundred metres away. Aireyholme Farm and Cliff Rigg can be seen just left of centre. A good clear morning with a slight dusting of snow.
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Binsey
After two good days training in the Lakes with the North East Junior Orienteering Squad, horrendous weather was forecast for today. Headed to Binsey for an event hoping to finsh before the weather broke. Binsey is the most northernly Wainwright fell. An isolated 447m high hill a few miles north of Bassenthwaite Lake. Wainwright describes it as “the odd man…
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Tarn Hows
One of the jewels of the Lake District. Originally three tarns that were dammed into one in Victorian times.
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Great Tower Plantation
In the Lakes for the weekend. This is the high point of Great Tower Plantation, a small remnant of oak woodland used as a Scouts activity centre, looking north to Windermere, the largest of the England Lakes. All the high fells are in cloud.
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Paddys’ Hole
A small man-made harbour at South Gare at the mouth of the Tees. Named after the Irish navvies who built the South Gare from slag from Teesside’s blast furnaces.
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Great Ayton Moor
Seemingly flat, featureless and largely colourless at this time of the year but Great Ayton Moor has over 80 known burial cairns dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. At that time the area was covered with mixed forest and not the heather clad moorland we see today.
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Carlton Bank
Descending from Carlton Moor to Lord Stones Country Park. Stokesley industrial estate is in the distant centre.
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Rock Art or Graffiti?
With rain forecast for the day I headed for Garfitt Gap below the Wainstones to try and photograph some Bronze Age cup and ring marked boulders. The boulders were easy to locate but the markings were not. The book I have has some drawings showing some intricate markings. Seems a bit of wishful thinking to me. A…
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Commondale
Runners at the start of the Commondale Beacon fell race. The pub in the back is the Cleveland Inn otherwise known as Hacky Tom’s. Although I don’t think the current landlord is called Tom.
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Ingleby Greenhow
I first came to this area in 1969 with my Dad and a party of walkers from the Nottinghamshire District Association of the Camping Club of GB&I. We were attempting the Lyke Wake Walk and camping for the duration near the village of Ingleby Greenhow. On arrival on the Friday night we went to the village pub,…