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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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Elm Houses: A Story of Two Bransdale Farms
Tucked into a remote part of Bransdale, Elm Houses has a tale worth telling. What is today one tidy holiday cottage surrounded by idle farm buildings was once two entirely separate farms: High and Low Elm House.
On the right stands High Elm House, a long 18th-century range. A lintel stone dated 17 ...https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/14/elm-houses-a-story-of-two-bransdale-farms/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #history
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Valley Garden: Bluebells, Bog Plants and a Baffling Fern
In the early 1950s, Lord Feversham had a rather splendid idea. To keep his staff at Bransdale Lodge busy, he ordered a “wild garden” to be carved out of Gimmer Bank Wood, on the soggy banks of Blowith Slack, a tributary of Hodge Beck. In went azaleas, rhododendrons, flowering cherries ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/08/valley-garden-bluebells-bog-plants-and-a-baffling-fern/
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Valley Garden: Bluebells, Bog Plants and a Baffling Fern
In the early 1950s, Lord Feversham had a rather splendid idea. To keep his staff at Bransdale Lodge busy, he ordered a “wild garden” to be carved out of Gimmer Bank Wood, on the soggy banks of Blowith Slack, a tributary of Hodge Beck. In went azaleas, rhododendrons, flowering cherries ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/08/valley-garden-bluebells-bog-plants-and-a-baffling-fern/
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Valley Garden: Bluebells, Bog Plants and a Baffling Fern
In the early 1950s, Lord Feversham had a rather splendid idea. To keep his staff at Bransdale Lodge busy, he ordered a “wild garden” to be carved out of Gimmer Bank Wood, on the soggy banks of Blowith Slack, a tributary of Hodge Beck. In went azaleas, rhododendrons, flowering cherries ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/08/valley-garden-bluebells-bog-plants-and-a-baffling-fern/
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Valley Garden: Bluebells, Bog Plants and a Baffling Fern
In the early 1950s, Lord Feversham had a rather splendid idea. To keep his staff at Bransdale Lodge busy, he ordered a “wild garden” to be carved out of Gimmer Bank Wood, on the soggy banks of Blowith Slack, a tributary of Hodge Beck. In went azaleas, rhododendrons, flowering cherries ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/08/valley-garden-bluebells-bog-plants-and-a-baffling-fern/
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Valley Garden: Bluebells, Bog Plants and a Baffling Fern
In the early 1950s, Lord Feversham had a rather splendid idea. To keep his staff at Bransdale Lodge busy, he ordered a “wild garden” to be carved out of Gimmer Bank Wood, on the soggy banks of Blowith Slack, a tributary of Hodge Beck. In went azaleas, rhododendrons, flowering cherries ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/08/valley-garden-bluebells-bog-plants-and-a-baffling-fern/
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A New Corner of Bransdale
Someone went to extraordinary lengths to block up what was once a field gate. It sits in a tangle of old inbye fields to the west of St. Catherine’s House in Bransdale. The field boundaries appear on the oldest Ordnance Survey maps, so the dry-stone wall and its two gateposts, or “stoops”, were almost certainly already there when the map-makers came calling.
Wh ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/30/a-new-corner-of-bransdale/
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Cockayne: The Land of Milk, Honey, and Mumbling Clerks
Medieval peasants dreamed of a place called Cockaigne — a land of luxury and ease where roasted pigs wandered about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, grilled geese flew directly into one’s mouth, and the wine flowed freely. Streets paved with pastry. Skies that rained cheese. You get the ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/23/cockayne-the-land-of-milk-honey-and-mumbling-clerks/
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Bloworth Slack—Not as Lazy as It Sounds
Bloworth Slack, just moments before it meets Badger Gill to become Hodge Beck. Bransdale again — but today we’ve been beside this quietly lovely woodland stream, its amber rocks lit by a sky so clear it almost seems rude.
I never took Geography at ‘O’ Level. I was a science boy, apparently, and Geography was firmly on the ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/02/bloworth-slack-not-as-lazy-as-it-sounds/
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The Duncombe Drive: Lost in Plain Sight
Repairs to fencing offered a rare glimpse into a part of Bransdale not open to the public.
The photograph shows Hall Plantation, where a line of beech trees accentuates what is clearly an old trackway, its course still visible beneath a deep carpet of last year’s leaves.
The track has been sittin ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/26/the-duncombe-drive-lost-in-plain-sight/
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #19thcentury #history #NationalTrust
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“Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”
In the moorland dales, the quality and excellence of available building stones are the primary factors that have influenced building construction. The Jurassic rocks have been worked in numerous quarries in all the dales and provided an abundance of stone, which has been used to build abbeys, churches, mansions, bridges, buildings in ...
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“Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”
In the moorland dales, the quality and excellence of available building stones are the primary factors that have influenced building construction. The Jurassic rocks have been worked in numerous quarries in all the dales and provided an abundance of stone, which has been used to build abbeys, churches, mansions, bridges, buildings in ...
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“Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”
In the moorland dales, the quality and excellence of available building stones are the primary factors that have influenced building construction. The Jurassic rocks have been worked in numerous quarries in all the dales and provided an abundance of stone, which has been used to build abbeys, churches, mansions, bridges, buildings in ...
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“Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”
In the moorland dales, the quality and excellence of available building stones are the primary factors that have influenced building construction. The Jurassic rocks have been worked in numerous quarries in all the dales and provided an abundance of stone, which has been used to build abbeys, churches, mansions, bridges, buildings in ...
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The unmistakable silouette of Scots Pine …
... 'haloed' by the National Trust to give a breathing space and a chance to harden up before the remaining larch plantation is felled next winter.
These trees are on a ridge called, quite coincidentally I think Scot Ridge, in Bransdale in the heart of the North York Moors.
Barker Plantation is shown on the 1857 OS Six-inch map, ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30723
#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #NationalTrust #Pinnussylvestris #ScotsPine