Category: North York Moors
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Goathland
In the mid-19th-century a village of Goathland didn’t exist, just a handful of isolated farms separated by wide tracts of common land providing routes between farms and the surrounding moorland. The Duchy of Lancaster claim ownership of this common land and until a few years ago allowed residents the right to cross it in order…
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Bella Dale Slack
Another bright glorious day walking around Scaling Dam Reservoir but once again marred by smoke from moor burning. Bella Dale on Easington High Moor. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Upper Ryedale and Snilesworth Moor
The gamekeepers have taken advantage of the vernal weather to burn the heather on their moors. Plumes of smoke can be seen right across the skyline, creating a haze. The smoke from these burns on Snilesworth Moor was drifting as far as Sheepwash, spoiling the day for families enjoying half term walking around the reservoir.…
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Bridestones Moor
Spent the day on Bridestones Moor, just north of Dalby Forest. It’s so easy to forget that it’s still only February. A glorious day. Buzzards soaring high, ladybirds active and sap rising from the newly cut trees. Tree felling and scrub clearance are now almost finished for yet another winter. Time to give the wildlife…
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Roseberry Rainbow
Moments after being caught in a shower. The rainbow was a complete semi-circle but the camera lens was not wide enough to fit it all in. One of those magic moments. A rainbow at night, Fair weather in sight. A rainbow at morn, Fair weather all gorn. Ok, not the best of poems and seemingly…
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Back of Cringley
Or Cringle Moor to give it its modern name. I prefer the old although an even earlier name was Cranimoor. A little-used path from the ruined farmstead of Clough up to Brian’s pond on Bilsdale Moor West. The stone from the buildings was used in the construction of Chop Gate village hall. A fate not…
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Westworth Reservoir
Had a look around the old Westworth Reservoir. This was one of my regular jaunts when I lived in Guisborough in the 1980s. Now just a puddle, it was a proper reservoir then, over 15,000 square yards, although no longer in use. Very popular with the local lads for swimming if I recall. A public…
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Capt. Cook’s Monument
“In memory of the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook F.R.S. A man of nautical knowledge inferior to none, in zeal prudence and energy, superior to most. Regardless of danger he opened an intercourse with the Friendly Isles and other parts of the Southern Hemisphere. He was born at Marton Oct. 27th 1728 and massacred at…
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The Heads
And today’s Feast Day is for Cædmon.
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Holy Well Gill
I discovered this little waterfall last Tuesday in a night navigation event. Under torchlight, it seemed a lot bigger and oranger from the mineral salts deposits. I just had to have a return for a visit in daylight. The event wasn’t exactly my best ever, having failed to find one control, I ended up so…