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  1. The Bottom End of Castleton, Where a Door Closed…

    I had been leafing through Joseph Ford’s “Some Reminiscences and Folk Lore of Danby Parish and District”, when one small passage stopped me in my tracks. Ford described the steady trickle of those who slipped away from the Esk Valley in the nineteenth century, chasing whispers of a new life across the ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/14/the-bot

    #Castleton #Eskdale #NorthYorkMoors #history

  2. When Castleton Fed a Queen

    From Castleton Rigg above Danby Dale, the eye follows the curve of the valley. To the right stands The Howe, and to the left, on the lower ridge lies Castleton, a village whose name carries the echo of a medieval stronghold. The castle itself rose on Castle Hill around 1089, and with it came cottages and workshops, likely clustering ar ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/09/17/when-ca

    #Castleton #DanbyDale #Eskdale #NorthYorkMoors #history

  3. John Turner, the king of Castleton Garland Day, on horseback, covered to the waist in a bell-shaped floral garland, parades through the village of Castleton in the Peak District

    Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP

    @photography
    #Castleton
    #garlands