#greenhow — Public Fediverse posts
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Lake Greenhow: A Forgotten Relic of the Ice Age
Yesterday’s post led me to glaciers, glacial lakes, and the like. At Botton Head, my imagination ran riot.
Difficult as it is to picture now, 10,000 years ago, a glacier covered the Tees Valley before me. The ice sheet, it is well-known, never quite managed to smother the Nor ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/26/lake-greenhow-a-forgotten-relic-of-the-ice-age/
#Greenhow #InglebyGreenhow #NorthYorkMoors #geological #glacial #history
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Jackson’s Bank—Medieval Trod
As you reach the top of Jackson’s Bank, it is hard not to imagine that, at the turn of the last century, weary walkers resting upon these boulders were serenaded by the rather pastoral sounds of iron-laden trucks grinding, screeching, and clattering their way down that incline on the opposite side of Greenhow B ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36716
#CarrRidge #ClevelandHills #Greenhow #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #history #ironstone #medieval #railway
