Category: Boosbeck
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The Parched Pond of Margrove
Two swans drift across the shrunken waters of Margrove Pond, looking strangely out of place in a wetland that has seen so much reshaping and had so much optimism. This 18-acre site, given to the Cleveland Wildlife Trust in 1993, lies on land once called “The Carrs,” a name that simply meant swampy ground. The…
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Boosbeck
East Cleveland is a not so frequented neck of the woods for me, yet it is an area steeped in history. This is Boosbeck, at the head of the Margrove valley, which Elgee insisted on calling the Boosbeck valley. His reasoning? The valley originally drained east from the moors beyond Aysdale to Saltburn Gill. This…