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  1. God Rays over Ayton Banks

    On Roseberry this morning, a weld-built young chap, kitted out as if he had sprinted straight from a gym in Middlesbrough, greeted me with a cheery “Aarite, lad? Beautiful up ’ere today, init? Better than last Mondee, eh?”. His words rather floored me, not only for his unexpected use of “beautiful” but because I would need to rummage back through these p ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/17/god-ray

    #AytonBanks #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors

  2. Clouds over the North Sea

    Ah, another crisp, cold morning with a blue sky. The sun, though, seemed to be having a leisurely lie-in. The reason all became clear atop Capt. Cook’s Monument. A bank of cumulus cloud hovered menacingly over the North Sea—not the friendly fair weather sort, mind you, but cumulus congestus, puffed up and self-important, like galleons scudding the skies. A storm brewi ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36786

    #AytonBank #EasbyMoor #NorthYorkMoors #meteorological

  3. Following the Green Dots: An Unclassified Road to Nowhere

    Now that the summer’s undergrowth is finally abating, I thought it an opportune moment to exercise a rarely-trod right of way past Ayton Banks Farm. One likes to ensure that these landowners are periodically reminded of the existence of such rights, lest they grow complacent.

    According to the 1:25,000 O.S. Map, the route is ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36488

    #AytonBanks #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  4. Ayton Banks Ironstone Mine — its legacy

    Playing with my new tripod, a Christmas goodie. I do like the motion blur effect of long exposures.

    The water is draining from the Ayton Banks ironstone mine, the stone of which turned out to be poor-quality, leading to the mine's brief existence. It had opened in the first decade of the 20th-century but closed during the depre ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=34177

    #AytonBanks #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #ecology #IronstoneMining

  5. A Forgotten Quarry—With a view of Roseberry

    A broken down dry-stone wall enticed me to scramble over for a gander and I stumbled upon an old sandstone quarry I never knew existed with a view of Roseberry from an angle I’ve not seen before.

    Ah, the uncomplicated pleasures of discovery.

    It wasn't a large quarry, and a quick count reveals it to be one of twelve mapped betwee ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=33881

    #AytonBank #GreatAyton #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #quarrying

  6. Ayton Bank — and a delve into the world of ‘Tumblers’

    This morning, I was lucky enough to get dropped off in Guisborough, and decided to walk back home, a one-way trip; avoiding, of course, the more popular paths since it's a Sunday.

    Ayton Bank is off the beaten track that offers a quiet location. In the distance is Easby Moor, topped with Capt. Cook's Monument. The broken ground in the for ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31936

    #AytonBank #GreatAytonMoor #NorthYorkMoors

  7. The Rise and Fall of Alum Production in Great Ayton

    As I descend from Capt. Cook's Monument, approaching Gribdale Terrace, the former whinstone quarrymen's cottages gleam white, with Cliff Rigg rising behind them. Before me, in the centre of the photo is a range of sandstone buildings mapped as Bank House Farm on the 1853 OS Six-inch map, but an auction advertisement in ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31921

    #AytonBank #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #alum #history

  8. Everytime I go up to Capt. Cook’s Monument I find another area of clear felling

    This is on Little Ayton Moor, above Hunter's Scar — note to self: have a look at this feature — revealing a view of the whole of the short valley between Roseberry Topping, Black Bank and Great Ayton Moor. A view that has not been seen for perhaps half a century.

    To me, a view such as this, even on a wet and w ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31169

    #AytonBank #GreatAytonMoor #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors

  9. Clear felling on Little Ayton Moor has opened up super views across Great Ayton Moor all the way to Highcliff Nab

    A light overnight snowfall hides the debris from the forestry work.

    I guess the remainder of the forestry will go in due course.

    Great Ayton Moor has a wealth of archaeological features which I've posted about many ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=30919

    #AytonBank #ClevelandWay #GreatAytonMoor #Gribdale #LittleAytonMoor #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #archaeological #snow

  10. Roseberry Watching Over Enclosed Land

    The nearest field in today’s photograph marks the site of the old farmstead of Summerhill, born out of Great Ayton’s enclosure of the common land in 1658. At that time, the commons stretched all the way to the top of Roseberry, open and shared in a way that would soon vanish.

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    fhithich.uk/2025/12/17/roseber

    #Aireyholme #AytonBank #GreatAyton #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #17thcentury #history

  11. “Arron Banks says his social media post was a "joke" and Plaid Cymru has "lost their sense of humour". Racists always pretend their evil comments are ‘just a joke’. #ArronBanks #Reform #Racism

  12. @Fife4Europe

    Brexit was funded by putin, through a go between called #ArronBanks. When a journalist found evidence, Banks sued her to shut her up, bcs that's how corrupt rich bullies do things.

    opendemocracy.net/en/carole-ca

    #brexit #farage #putin #darkmoney