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  1. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/22/gallow-

    #Castleton #Danby #NorthYorkMoors #Westerdale #history

  2. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/22/gallow-

    #Castleton #Danby #NorthYorkMoors #Westerdale #history

  3. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/22/gallow-

    #Castleton #Danby #NorthYorkMoors #Westerdale #history

  4. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/22/gallow-

    #Castleton #Danby #NorthYorkMoors #Westerdale #history

  5. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/22/gallow-

    #Castleton #Danby #NorthYorkMoors #Westerdale #history

  6. I'm walking down the hill and he's running up in the Danby State Forest -- reduced schedule today because I just came back from Friday Night Football

    #photo #photography #running #flrc #danby #sports #danbydownanddirty #danbystateforest #forestfriday

  7. View from the Pinnacles in the Danby State Forest this Saturday at the Danby Down and Dirty after the 10k runners had passed and I started hiking in the direction of the 23k runners

    #photo #photography #landscape #danby #danbystateforest #danbydownanddirty #forest #stateforest

  8. Another happy runner at the Pinnacles, the high point of the Danby State Forest which is one of those rare places in southern Tompkins County where you almost have a commanding view

    #photo #photography #forest #running #flrc #danby #danbystateforest #danbydownanddirty

  9. I got most of the photos for the Danby Down and Dirty 2025 at the Pinnacles but after the 10k runners had passed I started walking back to towards the start and got pictures of some 23k runners with a street photography technique

    #photo #photography #running #flrc #danby #danbydownanddirty #sports

  10. Clitherbecks — Coal, Cottages and Calamity

    Clitherbecks, a very lonely and remote place on the moors near Danby, yet attaining a certain picturesque quality beneath the blanket of snow.

    The dale is renowned for its coal mining legacy. Modest, isolated shafts were operated using a 'horse gin.' Upon reaching the seam, horizontal headings were dug in various directions un ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=34312

    #Danby #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #19thcentury #20thCentury #CoalMining

  11. The Coombs

    The moors have been transformed into a vibrant green as bilberries blanket the landscape. From this vantage point in the Esk valley, overlooking a basin resembling an armchair at the northern edge of Danby Rigg, known as 'The Coombs,' the captivating scene caught the attention of Rev. Canon Atkinson. He, who dedicated fifty years as Vicar of this parish, penned the following:
    The ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32094

    #Ainthorpe #Danby #DanbyRigg #NorthYorkMoors #etymology

  12. Nan Hardwicke — Witch or Hare? The Folklore of Cleveland

    There are very few Cleveland villages which, at one time or another, one of the inhabitants had not been stigmatised as a witch. More often than not, it was some lonely old woman, past her childbearing age, probably widowed but more than likely without any degree of patriarchal protection.

    The most celebrated of these w ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31832

    #Ainthorpe #Danby #NorthYorkMoors #19th-century #folklore #history