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Gallow How: Where Danby Meets Westerdale
On Thursday the first of August 1907, Danby staged its customary ‘Riding the Boundary’, a grand ritual meant to affirm the limits of the Manor, and by extension the Parish, while also paying annual homage to the Lord of the Manor, Hugh Richard, Viscount Downe.
The bailiff opened the day with a ringing “Oyez ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/11/22/gallow-how-where-danby-meets-westerdale/
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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 ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/11/14/the-bottom-end-of-castleton-where-a-door-closed/
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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 ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/09/17/when-castleton-fed-a-queen/
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The Winnats, Castleton, Derbyshire, c.1905 - Blum & Degen Postcard
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Giant’s Hole (yes, we know) + Morley Potholing Club = pure Peak District magic.
Waterproofs? Essential. Sense of humour? Non-negotiable. Watch as Stuart Clarkson navigates waterfalls, tight squeezes & rocks that glitter like disco balls.
Adventure awaits… if you’ve got the knees for it. 🕳️✨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGCNm0GAMgY
#caving #spelunking #potholing #castleton #peakdistrict #outdoors #OutdoorAdventure
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Subterranean scenes! Teaming up with Stuart Clarkson & Morley Potholing Club to show you their exit from the watery P8 cave (Peak District) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RyTVsFyaCn4
Ropes, rushing water, pure grit. You've got to admire the determination… seems cavers don't mind a good soaking!
#caving #spelunking #potholing #peakdistrict #castleton #uk #britain #england #outdoors
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#TeslaTakeDown - #Castleton / #Indianapolis, #Indiana
👉 WHEN: Saturday, March 15, 11am
👉 WHERE: Tesla Castleton
8280 Castleton Corner Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46250 US -
Castleton, Derbyshire, c.1980s - J Arthur Dixon Postcard
https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/castleton-derbyshire-c-1980s-j-arthur-dixon-postcard-221103420.htm
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The White Flint Legacy of Castleton
At the crest of an old tramway incline from the former silica quarries, once the workings of the Sheffield-based firm J. Grayson Lowood & Co. Ltd., one gazes across the Esk valley. Just off-centre in the distance lies the looming hump of Castleton Rigg, climbing to the highest point of the “Fat Moors.” The village of Castleton itself clings to the f ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36145
#Castleton #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #IndustrialArchaeology
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Betty Strother: A Yorkshire Witch
Cycling through Danby Park today opened up views of Castleton, perched precariously on the rigg across the Esk Valley. I was reminded of one of those countless lockdown projects—those fleeting fancies born of enforced idleness—which, like so many others, has been unceremoniously abandoned to gather dust. This particular project involved the tedious task of ...
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This was the view over the wall - looking towards Speedwell Cavern, as it happens - under dark grey skies, with sunshine dappling the hills
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Let's think:
1. Sunshine - coming and going, playing hide and seek with the clouds
2. Castleton - the hills, the hills! And the hills. And a gently challenging walk
3. A place to stay - the Bull's Head, if you want a recommendation(photos to follow)
#3GoodThings
@3goodthings
#Castleton #Derbyshire #UK #miniBreak -
Elfi The Dwarf — The Story Told at Ye Sign of the Fox & Hounds, Urra
The notion of transcribing these ancient folk tales of Richard Blakeborough, thought to be a splendid idea at first, an idea born during the Covid lockdown, now gnaws at my conscience with growing unease. Recent reports detailing the modification of Roald Dahl's cherishe ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=32062
#Castleton #HuttonleHole #Lastingham #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #Urra #folklore #RichardBlakeborough
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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
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Gallow Howe
In the hallowed depths of Whitby Museum there is a grisly relic — the 'Hand of Glory,' a mummified hand with a sinister past. Unearthed in the early 20th century by local historian Joseph Ford, this macabre exhibit is allegedly the preserved right hand of a criminal, amputated while still hanging from the gallows. It was rumoured that it would have been used by a burglar to plunge the occupants of ...
