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Old Meggison
Kildale Falls, aka Old Meggison. I had spotted the other day that a lot of work had been done by the estate thinning the trees and constructing steps down the steep bank. It has certainly been made a lot brighter and easier access downstream. The track along the gorge still displays “Concessionary Path” signs with…
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Great Ayton Bridge
Another drizzly misty morning so came back through the village. Ayton’s bridge over the River Leven was built in 1909 replacing an earlier humpbacked one. There has been a lot of rain overnight and the river is high. But I really wanted to photograph Easby Lane. That’s it, a residential road heading off in the…
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Kirby Bank
Crossing Emerson’s fence on the climb up Kirby Bank from the Scout camp. I have already posted about the history of this fence before. A posting which although only from May this year, I had completely forgotten about. The fenceline was created as the result of a legal dispute in 1854 over potential ironstone mining…
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Roseberry
It was raining when I set off and ten minutes before I took this, I was in cloud on the summit. And then the sun came out. Turned out nice. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Badger Gill
Some pesky rabbits took me to Badger Gill in Bransdale. An intake field for one of the National Trust’s tenant farmers was being made rabbit proof. Looking upstream from the limit of Trust property is a scene of devastation. Bransdale Forest, comprised of various pockets of trees scattered throughout the dale, was planted in the…
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On Carr Ridge
A wander up Carr Ridge with the dog on a glorious end to the afternoon after another wet morning. Super clear views across the Tees plain to the foothill of County Durham. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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On Hood Hill
Rain before seven, Lift before eleven. So the old saying goes, but, ok the rain had stopped but the cloud still blanketted the 250m glacial outlier of Hood Hill. We climbed the hill to explore the earthworks of a medieval fortification, a motte and bailey castle. And to talk of the legends of witches…
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Ingleby Greenhow Church
I am not into religion but churches are usually the oldest building in a village so they have a certain fascination. St Andrew’s Church is odd-looking, low and squat with a bell tower that looks out of place. According to the inscription over the door, the church was rebuilt in 1741 but some of the…
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Course of the old Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway
The Pinchinthorpe Walkway and Visitor Centre, on the route of the old Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway. The carriage is not authentic and is a recent purchase for use as an outdoor classroom. The Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway was built in 1853 to serve the ironstone mines at Codhill owned by Joseph Whitwell Pease, a leading…
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The Carrs
An uncommon view of Roseberry across the flatlands of Moreton Carr and Upsall Carr but one that would be easily recognised by commuters on the A171 Guisborough By-Pass. The ‘Carr’ element of these names comes from the Old Scandanavian word kjarr meaning a marshy area, giving an insight into the terrain in medieval Cleveland. Open…
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