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1772: A Path, A Stone, A Hanging
The so-called “Miners’ Trod”, with Cold Moor rising beyond it, cuts a broad, unsightly scar along the hillside courtesy of the forestry workers. The path’s name comes from the nineteenth-century jet-miners, though it is unlikely they were its first users. That large boulder to the left bears t ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/06/14/1772-a-path-a-stone-a-hanging/
#ColdMoor #GarfittGap #GreatBroughton #NorthYorkMoors #18thcentury #ClevealndWay #history
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A speeat o’ rain
In this month of showers, a spate — a heavy downpour in the Cleveland vernacular — situated somewhere in the vicinity of Great Broughton.
I don't suppose that 'spate' found its place amidst the 40,000 entries of Dr Samuel Johnson's seminal dictionary, published on this very day in 1755. The laborious compilation consumed nearly a decade of his life, though he once boasted he could hav ...