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Autumn: The Killing Season

Green Bank — not very green on this first day of so-called meteorological autumn. The almanac though insists that autumn does not officially begin for another three weeks, though nature is already ahead of schedule. The harvest is in, or at least half of it, since some yields are reported at a dismal fifty per cent. Mornings arrive wit ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/09/01/autumn-the-killing-season/

#ClevelandHills #CringleMoor #GreenBank #NorthYorkMoors

Green Bank: Where the Ice Met its Match

Yesterday’s post about Hagg’s Gate set me off thinking, descending yet another rabbit hole: about the time the last glacier flowed down the Vale of York and slammed into the Cleveland Hills. About the time that ice sheet politely stopped at the hills’ feet. About the time these great north and ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/04/28/green-bank-where-the-ice-met-its-match/

#ClevelandHills #CringleMoor #GreenBank #NorthYorkMoors #glacial #history

Crannimoor: A Hill, a Café, and a Case of a Misplaced Apostrophe

On Cringle or Cringley Moor, or if one wants to sound particularly archaic, Crannimoor. A Victorian writer hailing from the West Riding once claimed this was pronounced “Creenay.” As for its origin, the modern thinking is that it comes from the Old Norse ‘kringla,’ meaning a “circle.” However, the ever-reliable Reverend R. C. At ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=37395

#CarltonMoor #ClevelandHills #CringleMoor #GreenBank

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

From Beck Hills to the Cotswolds: A Tale of Unequal Farming

Cringle Moor, as seen from Cold Moor across the eastern sweep of Raisdale. Below sits Beck Hills farm, your archetypal North York Moors operation. According to their website, they mostly breed sheep on 125 acres of valley pasture, with another 300 acres of shared grazing rights on Cold Moor. They have also embra ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36810

#ClevelandHills #CringleMoor #CringleMoor #NorthYorkMoors #Raisdale #farming

90 Metres of Progress: The Curious Case of a New Bridleway

It is a curious thing, is it not, that the powers-that-be, in their infinite wisdom, believed they could neatly parcel up the English countryside like so many slices of cake, each path and bridleway served with a side of bureaucracy. Under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949, a grand endeavou ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36179

#ClevelandHills #ClevelandWay #CringleMoor #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

18th-Century Valentines

I noticed new trees have been planted on Busby Moor, that stretch of Cleveland Hills below Cringle Moor and Green Bank.

And so to St. Valentine's day, isn't this year flying by?

Francis Grose's 'A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', written in 1785, defines a 'valentine' as 'the first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman on St. Valentine's ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31547

#CringleMoor #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #Valentine'sDay

18th-Century Valentines

I noticed new trees have been planted on Busby Moor, that stretch of Cleveland Hills below Cringle Moor and Green Bank.

And so to St. Valentine's day, isn't this year flying by?

Francis Grose's 'A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', written in 1785, defines a 'valentine' as 'the first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman on St. Valentine's ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31547

#CringleMoor #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #Valentine'sDay

The sight of low cloud from Bilsdale pouring over the cols in the Cleveland Hills always leaves me with wonder

This is looking down on Green Bank, a flattish ring contour rise marking the head of Raisdale, and separating Cringle or Cranimoor from the steep slope up Carlton Bank. The col is nowadays more commonly known as the 'Lordstones' on account of t ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31321

#CarltonBank #ClevelandHills #CringleMoor #GreenBank #LordStones #NorthYorkMoors #19th-century

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