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Rock Art or Graffiti?
With rain forecast for the day I headed for Garfitt Gap below the Wainstones to try and photograph some Bronze Age cup and ring marked boulders. The boulders were easy to locate but the markings were not. The book I have has some drawings showing some intricate markings. Seems a bit of wishful thinking to me. A…
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Commondale
Runners at the start of the Commondale Beacon fell race. The pub in the back is the Cleveland Inn otherwise known as Hacky Tom’s. Although I don’t think the current landlord is called Tom.
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Ingleby Greenhow
I first came to this area in 1969 with my Dad and a party of walkers from the Nottinghamshire District Association of the Camping Club of GB&I. We were attempting the Lyke Wake Walk and camping for the duration near the village of Ingleby Greenhow. On arrival on the Friday night we went to the village pub,…
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Snowdrops and Aconites
Snowdrops have been out for a few weeks. But this is the first time I’ve seen this other reminder that spring is just around the corner. In the grounds of Kildale Hall.
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Aireyholme Farm
Where the young James Cook lived and where his farther was a farm labourer. Although there is a local belief that the Cook family actual cottage was a little distance away from the main farm. Next month there is to be a geophysical survey to try to identify the site of this cottage. Cook senior’s…
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Great Ayton’s Gents Urinal
Is this the smallest Grade II listed building? A cast iron Victorian gents’ urinal. Originally one of three in the village, this one was situated on Station Road and was relocated in Waterfall Park in 1998. It’s sealed up so it can’t be used.
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Carlton Bank
A bright sunny day over the vale of Cleveland without a cloud in the sky. But Raisdale and Bilsdale to the south had plenty of fog which overflowed down Carlton Bank. Quite a dramatic site. The photo was taken from a spot on the Busby road with the super name of Rolling Pin Gate.
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Last of the Winter Sun
Cold Moor, a narrow ridge of heather moor overlooking Raisdale. The ruin, built with dressed stones against a boulder, was probably a shepherd’s hut.
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Richmond Racecourse
Horse racing on Low Moor, Richmond, dates from the seventeenth century. As a racecourse it was abandoned in 1891 as the bends were too tight for the modern racehorses being selectively bred. It is now Open Access Land comprising rough grassland and is still used for exercising horses. The plaque above the boarded window states…
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Kip, Cliff Rigg Incline
The ruined wall is the top of the self acting incline used to haul wagons of ironstone down the escarpment at the Cliff Rigg end of Newton Wood. It is known as a “kip”; the snow accentuates the profile. A rake of wagons full of iron ore was lowered down the incline by a steel rope wrapped around a…
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