#cheviothills — Public Fediverse posts

A very famous Northumbrian view, the Cheviot Hills from Corby's Crags, basically from the carpark, at the end of a glorious summers evening. #Northumberland #Landscape #Photography #CheviotHills #Cheviot

I have just got back from walking along part of the Cleveland Hills above Guisborough in North Yorkshire. It was a sunny but frosty morning after several days of rain. The air was very clear. The Cleveland Hills and Pennines were capped with snow. Beyond Teesmouth, on the northern horizon were two white shapes that I had not seen before. The leftmost was long and flat, the rightmost narrow and pointed. I am fairly sure these were the snow-capped Cheviot and Hedgehope Hill, 80 miles away and almost on the Scottish border. When I was at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the '80s my tutor said that he could see the Cheviot from his office in the Claremont Tower. See the image in this old article in the Guardian for what they look like: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/26/country-diary-cheviots-clear-view-1968. Today the snowline on them was at a lower level than in that image.

#teesside #northyorkmoors #cheviothills #walking #guisborough #sightlines

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Hownam Law and the Kale Water, #CheviotHills

Monday on the bike in the #CheviotHills - A couple of fine forts: Cunzierton and Chatto. Also a couple of stone circles, a standing stone and a Roman road. #HillfortsWednesday #Roxburghshire

Took myself away from staring at a computer screen and wrangling websites to walk the hound. Beautiful blue and gold evening, looking towards the Cheviot Hills. A January wind, but the promise of spring around the corner.

#Northumberland #Photography #Landscape #CheviotHills #NorthCountry #January

Since I think my original post about this place got lost in my server move, I'm redoing it for #WaterfallWednesday.

This is the Hen Hole, far into the Cheviot Hills, at the head of the remote College Valley. A deep, craggy cleft in the side of Cheviot itself, where the wind blows the water backwards up the fall, peregrines swoop above the cliffs, and fairy music emanates from cracks in the rocks.

The story goes that a hunting party once rode up from Kirknewton, on the trail of a white stag. The stag led them a dance all the way up the College Valley before disappearing between the crags of the Hen Hole.

There, the party became transfixed by the sound of beautiful music. Bewitched, they followed it into a deep crack into the hill, and were never seen again. The only survivor was an elderly farmer on an old nag, left behind by the hunt, who came up behind just in time to see the last of his fellows disappear into the hillside.

#Northumberland #Waterfall #CheviotHills #Folklore #Folktale #Fairytale #Legend #Landscape @folklore

Continuing our watch of the Gaelic programme walking from Melrose to Lindisfarne. We recorded it and are slowly getting through it. Onto episode 3 which goes from Monteviot to Kirk Yetholm. So getting into my granny’s home country. The iPlayer version of this episode is only online until Monday evening coming. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dhjf/slighe-naoimh-cuithbeirtst-cuthberts-way-series-1-episode-3
#Gaelic #Gaidlig #ScottishBorders #Walking #StCuthbertsWay #Roxburghshire #Scotland #Cheviots #CheviotHills #BorderReivers

The Henhole, deep in the Cheviot Hills. Where waterfalls blow backwards, peregrines fly overhead, and fairy music drifts out of the hills.

It's said that once a hunting party chased a white hart all the way up the College Valley, only to be entranced by the beauty of the music and disappear forever underground.

#northumberland #folklore #folkstories #northumbrianstories #storyteller #fairytales #fairylore #lore #strangetales #cheviothills