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The Roseberry Hoard
I’ve always tended to miss out Roseberry summit if I see it crowded, but I did bag the top today. Overcast but still clear enough for views to the Cleveland Hills, just a wisp of low cloud over Round Hill on Urra Moor. Upper left in the photo is Aireyholme Farm at the end of…
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When Roseberry Topping wears a cap …
You know the rest, I won’t bother repeating. So Cleveland didn’t have a clap, but a dreich day with proper rain. The first since this lockdown began. Yet Odin’s hill heaved a sigh of relief. Relief that the woods of oak and moors are finally watered. Relief in the reduced visitor footfall, the all too…
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Dry stone wall restoration in Sleddale
This chap has got his work cut out. It looks a well-organised job. But is he rebuilding the wall or selling the stones off for someone’s extension? No, that would be too cynical. More likely he’s working downhill and has completed the upper half of the wall. The laid-out wall doesn’t seem to have been…
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Hawnby
One from Sunday’s cycle ride through Ryedale. The charming village of Hawnby with its sandstone cottages and pantile roofs clustered around the mill. The uniform colour scheme of the doors indicates that this was, and probably still is an estate village. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Caydale ford
When I was into outdoor education when one of my younger charges got stung from nettles I used to tell them that Native Americans used to flail themselves with nettles to prolong their endurance during long buffalo hunts. I don’t know where I picked that snippet up, probably off the TV from someone like Ray…
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Roseberry from Cockshaw Quarry
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full…
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Ravenscar from Stoup Brow
Stoup Brow Moor is rich in historic features, including round barrows, boundary markers and numerous neolithic rock carvings that were discovered after intensive moorland fires in 2003. But yet again these carved rocks proved elusive, buried by 17 years of heather growth. But turn your back to the moor, cast your eyes east and you…
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Royal Oak Day,twenty nineth of May,if you deean’t give us holiday,We’ll all run away.
If you see someone out wearing a sprig of oak leaves today, May 29th, he, or she, is celebrating Royal Oak Day. The day traditionally commemorating King Charles II‘s return to London and his restoration as King on this day in 1660, which also happened to be his birthday. The oak leaves symbolise his escape…
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A coward! a coward! o’ Barney CastleDare na come out to fight a battle!
I was tempted to cycle to Barnard Castle today but just a shade too far. I didn’t think my eyesight was up to it. However, I just couldn’t let the opportunity go so here’s a photo instead from October 2017. The glorious River Tees, taken from the castle keep. A coward! a coward! o’ Barney…
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The enigma of the Kildale man who went down with the Titanic
On the 15 April 1912, the RMS Titanic had been at sea for five days on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City when she hit the iceberg on her starboard side that caused her hull plates to buckle inwards, flooding five of the sixteen watertight compartments that had been designed to make…
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