Tag: National Trust
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Mount Grace Priory
They’ve done a lot of tree felling around Mount Grace Priory, opening up new views of the ruined 14th-century Carthusian Priory. The monks lived in silent isolation, in cells around the two cloisters. To the right of the church is the larger cloister which incorporates sixteen cells. On the extreme right is a modern reconstruction…
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Grain Slack
Discovered a new area of moorland today. Thompson’s Rigg, part of the National Trust’s Blakey Topping property. Heather dominates the rigg, hiding the prehistoric field system, cairnfield and hollow ways. Across Grain Slack, a diverse shallow valley is Allerston High Moor, also Trust land. In the distance, the commercial plantations of Langdale Forest have been…
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Cod Beck
Construction work by the National Trust at Cod Beck. The aim is to create a circular wheelchair accessible path around the reservoir. Yorkshire Water has upgraded the existing paths and gates and plan to install a new bridge just beyond the far side of the tree left of centre. Rangers and volunteers of the National…
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Scarth Wood Moor
Early morning mists dissipate over Scarth Wood moor, a National Trust property near Osmotherley. The clear blue skies soon gave way to Autumn showers.
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Thorneythwaite
Borrowdale, one of the wettest places in England. The hamlet at the bottom of the photo is Seatoller nestling at the foot of Honistor Pass. And the farm left of centre is Thorneythwaite, the National Trust’s latest acquisition. Besides the fields the 300 acres of land the Trust has brought includes woodland, fellside, wood pasture…
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Tea on the Topping
All set up with the kettle on the boil and plenty of cakes for the annual Tea on the Topping fundraising event by the rangers of the National Trust. A bit windy so the summit was abandoned in favour of the relative shelter of the folly.
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Castle Ward
A lovely National Trust property at the south end of Strangford Lough. Game of Thrones fans might recognise the tower house as the town gate to Winterfell however in the film two towers are shown, one either side of the arched gateway. This was all done with the magic of cgi.
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Tom's Bransdale Fell Race
A 12km running race dreamt up by Tom Watson, a surveyor for the National Trust, and in whose memory the race is now held and organised by his friends and colleagues. The race is largely off road and involves 400m of climbing. It starts from the Trust’s Bransdale Mill, a charming spot in a charming dale. The photo was taken…
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Capt. Cooks’ Cottage Archaelogical Dig
That’s it. That’s as far as we go. The archaeological excavation at Aireyholme Farm, near Great Ayton, is done. Today has been spent tidying and cleaning for photographing and recording. Going on the evidence of oral tradition of the farmer at Aireyholme that the boyhood home of Capt. James Cook was within a stand of…
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Old Peak, Ravenscar
A day spent helping the National Trust install new steps on badly eroded sections of the steep path down to the “beach” at Ravenscar. There are no sands on the beach just a tumbled collection of rocks that are only dry at low tide but are a playground for the herd of seals that can…