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Glaisdale’s Brief Age of Iron

Glaisdale began life as a quiet township within the parish of Danby, its name shifting through the centuries as Glasedale and Glacedale. Records from 1223 already linked it with the broad sweep of Glaisdale Moor, giving a sense of a place long settled into its landscape.

For much of its history it has been a rural dale of small ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/12/08/glaisdales-brief-age-of-iron/

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Vandalised Legacy: The Tale of Beggar’s Bridge

A stroll down to Beggar's Bridge to take a gander at the scene of recent vandalism that had struck the 17th-century packhorse bridge. News of the damage, likely inflicted by a sneaky hand wielding a Stihl saw, has cast doubt over the bridge's future. The old structure, standing for 400 years, now bears the scars of vandalism—letters deeply ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33011

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Boom and Bust: Glaisdale’s Brief Ironstone Mining Era

Back in 1831, Glaisdale was a mere township within the parish of Danby. But, by the end of the century, Glaisdale was a parish in its own right. The village, though, pretty much developed as a mining community, which began around the mid-1860s, and by the end of that decade an ironworks had been built.

So, in the mid-19th ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33003

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