Category: Nidderdale
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Providence Smelting Mill – Lead, Sweat and and 200 Years of Silence
The arch in this image above has stood on this windswept Yorkshire moor for over two hundred years. It is now the most eye-catching feature in this otherwise barren valley. Near Greenhow, west of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, the ground holds centuries of industrial history just beneath the surface. In 1840, Michael Colling, agent to…
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On Dead Man’s Hill
Or the continuing story of Jenny Twigg and her daughter Tib. We parked up at Scar House Reservoir at the top of Nidderdale last night and from across the reservoir, Dead Man’s Hill beckoned. A plan formed for my morning run. There was no phone reception at Scar House Reservoir so I had to wait…
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Jenny Twigg and her daughter Tib
Ee, I love maps me. I happened to notice the name “Jenny Twigg and her daughter Tib” marked on the map of Fountains Earth Moor overlooking Nidderdale, and so I just had to suss them out. It turned out they were two gritstone towers carved by the wind and rain, on the edge of but…
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Outflow, Scar House Reservoir
A wet day in Nidderdale
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Nidderdale
Nidderdale and Gouthwaite Reservoir
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Brimham Rocks
Oh no, not more “artwork” spoiling our countryside.