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The Pale — Playground of the Percys
Viewed here from Percy Cross Rigg, Capt. Cook’s Monument is just about visible on the highest point of Easby Moor. This eastern end, in the parish of Kildale, is known as Coate Moor and those unforested fields on the spur are labelled “The Pale” on Ordnance Survey maps. It is a relic of one of the three medie ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/24/the-pale-playground-of-the-percys/
#CoateMoor #Kildale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #history #medieval
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The Smallest Forest on the Stump
I have discovered an app on my phone that had been hiding in plain sight. The ‘Magnifier’. A small thing, yet it has opened a door. The everyday world has shrunk and turned strange. Tree stumps become miniature forests. Rough wood turns into a map of ridges and valleys.
Peering at a pale green stand of upright stalks on the stump of a c ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/02/07/the-smallest-forest-on-the-stump/
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Coate Moor, Larches
A view from the top of Coate Moor towards the head of Kildale, an obsequent valley biting back into the Cleveland escarpment. The glacial upheaval forced the River Leven to scour a narrow gorge through the shales and sandstones below Coate Moor. I have posted about this before.
But Kildale has another, somewhat obscure, point of interest. A map from 1612 sti ...
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Beyond the Pale: The Lingering Echoes of Kildale’s Past
The sky was an unnervingly perfect shade of cerulean this morning, while overnight frost clung on stubbornly in the shadows. This is the view from Percy Rigg towards Coate Moor, the back of Captain Cook’s, the monument making a feeble attempt at visibility—you will need ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/02/28/beyond-the-pale-the-lingering-echoes-of-kildales-past/
#CoateMoor #Kildale #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #history #medieval
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Kildale’s Telecoms Mast Dilemma
The picture doesn't quite portray the hurricane-like gusts, making it a struggle to stay upright. Another rain shower is looming, chasing away the previous one in no time.
I'm up on the moor behind Park Nab, looking across Kildale. On the distant skyline, at its highest point, stands Captain Cook's Monument. But something's amiss with the foreground. The ...