Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Category: Blackstone Edge

  • Robin Hood’s Bed: Erosion, Myths, and Grouse Shooters’ Wine

    Robin Hood’s Bed: Erosion, Myths, and Grouse Shooters’ Wine

    Our return journey across the M62 was, unsurprisingly, rather more foggy than the outward. This, coupled with a smidgen of common sense, deterred any whim to revisit Blackstone Edge. Thus, I here is instead another photograph from yesterday’s wander, of the rock formation bearing the pretentious title of “Robin Hood’s Bed” or, to vary the…

  • The Aiggin Stone: a Resilient Guidepost of Blackstone Edge

    The Aiggin Stone: a Resilient Guidepost of Blackstone Edge

    On a damp, somewhat joyless morning, we embarked on a foray up Blackstone Edge, detouring briefly from the misery of the M62 to scale this Pennine hill. Past the summit trig. point and “Robin Hood’s Bed”—an erratic boulder unceremoniously perched there as though in mockery—we came upon the Aiggin Stone, a relic with pretensions of…

  • Blackstone Edge

    Blackstone Edge

    With the young scion installed back at uni, a chance to explore the Pennines on the way back home. Blackstone Edge, a gritstone escarpment conveniently just off the M62 and overlooking the conurbation of Manchester. The map named Robin Hood’s Bed just south of the summit which sounded interesting but as I didn’t know what…