#aytonbanks — Public Fediverse posts
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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 ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/11/17/god-rays-over-ayton-banks/
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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 ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36488
#AytonBanks #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights
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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 ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34177
#AytonBanks #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #ecology #IronstoneMining