#coldmoor — Public Fediverse posts
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Cold Moor: A Close Brush with Industry
Cold Moor today looks like the sort of place that looks as though history slipped it by. Green, quiet, and peaceful. You would never guess how close it came to becoming a roaring industrial scar.
In 1911 the calm nearly ended. Plans were laid to turn this part of Lord Feversham’s vast es ...http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/02/27/cold-moor-a-close-brush-with-industry/
#ClevelandHills #ColdMoor #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #history #IronstoneMining
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A Mystery Beneath our Feet on Cold Moor
Last Sunday, the weather gods allowed a final memorable spectacle of blue skies over the North York Moors before the autumnal gloom. From the heights of Cold Moor, the view towards the Wainstones was as grand as ever, but my eye was drawn not to the distant crags, but to something ra ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/10/15/a-mystery-beneath-our-feet-on-cold-moor/
#ClevelandHills #ClevelandWay #CoastToCoast #ColdMoor #NorthYorkMoors #wainstones
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A Ruined Shelter, a Romantic Name, and some Random Latin
An opportunistic photograph, captured during a rare moment when the winter sun managed to pierce the unrelenting gloom of an overcast day.
Here I am on Cold Moor—or, if you are feeling fanciful, Mount Vittoria Plantation. I prefer the latter; it has that pretentious 19th-century flair. This narrow strip of hea ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36994
#ClevelandHills #ColdMoor #CringleMoor #MountVittoria #NorthYorkMoors #history
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Cold Moor Lane — Hollow Way and Medieval Trod
Taking a respite from the biting easterly breeze while in the shelter of Cold Moor Lane, a sunken bridleway climbing out of Chop Gate, a debate unfolded about its origins.
Well, if we concede that its sunken characteristic stems from centuries of human and animal movement along this route, then I suppose one could argue it's manmade. Althoug ...
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A temperature inversion covered the lowlands around Stokesley this morning, inching up the steep banks of the Cleveland Hills
The sheep munching away on the col between Cringle and Cold Moors are apathetically unaware of the creeping cloud.
The distinctive red earth is a spoil heap from jet working that has been burnt to convert the ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30801
#ClevelandHills #ColdMoor #CringleMoor #NorthYorkMoors #19th-century #jetmining #temperatureinversion #Victorian