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A New View, a New Mudd.e
The recent clear felling of a block of forestry in Ayton Banks Wood has opened up a new view of Roseberry. The commercial timber has gone, leaving a few gangly birch trees to stand guard over the valley. It turns out that Gribdale Terrace, that isolated row of white cottages, has a history which is a bit of a muddle.
One academic maintains that thes ... -
A New View, a New Mudd.e
The recent clear felling of a block of forestry in Ayton Banks Wood has opened up a new view of Roseberry. The commercial timber has gone, leaving a few gangly birch trees to stand guard over the valley. It turns out that Gribdale Terrace, that isolated row of white cottages, has a history which is a bit of a muddle.
One academic maintains that thes ... -
A New View, a New Mudd.e
The recent clear felling of a block of forestry in Ayton Banks Wood has opened up a new view of Roseberry. The commercial timber has gone, leaving a few gangly birch trees to stand guard over the valley. It turns out that Gribdale Terrace, that isolated row of white cottages, has a history which is a bit of a muddle.
One academic maintains that thes ... -
A New View, a New Mudd.e
The recent clear felling of a block of forestry in Ayton Banks Wood has opened up a new view of Roseberry. The commercial timber has gone, leaving a few gangly birch trees to stand guard over the valley. It turns out that Gribdale Terrace, that isolated row of white cottages, has a history which is a bit of a muddle.
One academic maintains that thes ... -
A New View, a New Mudd.e
The recent clear felling of a block of forestry in Ayton Banks Wood has opened up a new view of Roseberry. The commercial timber has gone, leaving a few gangly birch trees to stand guard over the valley. It turns out that Gribdale Terrace, that isolated row of white cottages, has a history which is a bit of a muddle.
One academic maintains that thes ... -
Gribdale Gate and the Edge of the Ice
A view from Cliff Rigg looking across to Gribdale Gate and Easby Moor, where the monument to Captain James Cook stands like a stubborn finger pointing at the sky. It is a landscape that seems quiet until you realise how much has happened here while human ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/02/24/gribdale-gate-and-the-edge-of-the-ice/
#CaptCooksMonument #ClevelandHills #CliffRigg #EasbyMoor #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #geological #history #prehistoric
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A Holloway to Gribdale Gate
I have long been fascinated by this track and steep-sided gorge that leads to Gribdale Gate on the Lonsdale side. Its form suggests deliberate shaping, as though carved by generations travelling to and from Great Ayton Moor. The talus slope is composed of shaley mudstone, which weathers into a slick, unstable mass, more mud than stone whe ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/02/23/a-holloway-to-gribdale-gate/
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Solmōnaþ — Cake, Mud, and Lowered Hopes
It is Solmōnaþ. Cake Month. A rare cause for cheer in the damp gloom of February.
In the Anglo-Saxon calendar, Solmōnaþ sat where February is now. It marked a time when offerings were made to pagan gods, back when England was less Christian and more heathen. The idea was simple. Feed the gods and hop ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/02/01/solmonath-cake-mud-and-lowered-hopes/
#Aireyholme #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #EarlyMedieval #history
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Hiding the Snowbones
I woke to a fresh cover of snow and a wall of fog. One lifted the spirits, the other did its level best to flatten them. Ten minutes after leaving the house and starting the climb up Roseberry, the sky had a change of heart and slowly thinned to an azure blue. The temperature inversion gave up the fight, retreating into a thick band of white cloud that slid t ...
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God Rays over Ayton Banks
On Roseberry this morning, a weld-built young chap, kitted out as if he had sprinted straight from a gym in Middlesbrough, greeted me with a cheery “Aarite, lad? Beautiful up ’ere today, init? Better than last Mondee, eh?”. His words rather floored me, not only for his unexpected use of “beautiful” but because I would need to rummage back through these p ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/11/17/god-rays-over-ayton-banks/
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Gribdale — Gorse, Ghosts, and Geology
A view looking down onto Gribdale Terrace — a neat row of white cottages built for the quarrymen who toiled in the nearby whinstone mine and quarries. Picturesque, if one forgets what they were built for.
And where exactly is Gribdale, you ask? A good question, though clearly one nobody has bothered to answer properly. There is somet ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/04/22/gribdale-gorse-ghosts-and-geology/
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Furze: Fodder, Folklore, and the Smell of Coconut
A sudden change in the weather, as if the sky has grown bored. No more sun-drenched optimism; just a grey sheet of disinterest overhead. Still, Roseberry manages to look charming, despite being surpassed by the only plant capable of making scrubland smell like a tropical cocktail — gorse. Its yello ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/04/09/furze-fodder-folklore-and-the-smell-of-coconut/
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Toads and Toadies—Spanghew and Sycophants
I came across this small fellow today. Brushes with nature are always a delight, especially when they are happen out of the blue, so there was no real competition for today’s photograph.
Toads, as everyone ought to know, are entirely harmless. They rid gardens of unwanted insects and yet, for centuries, ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/22/toads-and-toadies-spanghew-and-sycophants/
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Following the Green Dots: An Unclassified Road to Nowhere
Now that the summer’s undergrowth is finally abating, I thought it an opportune moment to exercise a rarely-trod right of way past Ayton Banks Farm. One likes to ensure that these landowners are periodically reminded of the existence of such rights, lest they grow complacent.
According to the 1:25,000 O.S. Map, the route is ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36488
#AytonBanks #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights
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Ragwort: Friend to Insects, Foe to Livestock
Another dreich day forces me to turn to *Flora Britannica* for today’s photo.
Ragworts, a group of daisy-like flowers, include several species, with the Common Ragwort being particularly notorious. This native, biennial plant, sometimes perennial, disperses its seeds by the wind. One plant can produce thousands, making it a potential nuisance on waste ...
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Roseberry Topped Reflection
I recently read an article about the ecology of puddles, revealing their significance as habitats for certain invertebrate species. These small, transient pools offer a refuge from larger predators and competitors due to their isolated and short-lived nature.
Many of these puddles hold high conservation value, housing rare specialist creatures. ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34569
#GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #ecology #fauna
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Ayton Banks Ironstone Mine — its legacy
Playing with my new tripod, a Christmas goodie. I do like the motion blur effect of long exposures.
The water is draining from the Ayton Banks ironstone mine, the stone of which turned out to be poor-quality, leading to the mine's brief existence. It had opened in the first decade of the 20th-century but closed during the depre ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34177
#AytonBanks #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #ecology #IronstoneMining
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Christmas Contemplations
On this eve of Christmas Day, I found myself deep in thought. It seems a mere five minutes since last year. Maybe it's just because of that old chestnut: "time flies when you're having fun." Each morning I do wake up excited as to what adventures the day will bring.
Dopamines, those pleasure-inducing chemicals, supposedly interfere with our internal ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34045
#CliffRigg #EasbyMoor #EasbyMoor #Gribdale #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors
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Winter Solstice — Earth’s rebirth
Around this time of the year, the sun's midday height in the sky changes only marginally. However, its minimum zenith, concluding precisely at 3:27 this morning, undeniably signifies a turning point for all inhabitants of the northern hemisphere — the Winter Solstice.
This day then stands as the shortest, beginning the sun's gradual ascent and the retre ...
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A view along the Cleveland Dyke
A view looking down on Gribdale Terrace, a row of white cottages built to accommodate the quarrymen employed at the adjacent whinstone mine and quarry.
The line of the Whinstone or Cleveland Dyke can clearly be seen in the photograph, stretching from Cliff Rigg in the distance to behind the cottages where it follows the line of the road. The presence of the yellow gors ...
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A view along the Cleveland Dyke
A view looking down on Gribdale Terrace, a row of white cottages built to accommodate the quarrymen employed at the adjacent whinstone mine and quarry.
The line of the Whinstone or Cleveland Dyke can clearly be seen in the photograph, stretching from Cliff Rigg in the distance to behind the cottages where it follows the line of the road. The presence of the yellow gors ...
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A view along the Cleveland Dyke
A view looking down on Gribdale Terrace, a row of white cottages built to accommodate the quarrymen employed at the adjacent whinstone mine and quarry.
The line of the Whinstone or Cleveland Dyke can clearly be seen in the photograph, stretching from Cliff Rigg in the distance to behind the cottages where it follows the line of the road. The presence of the yellow gors ...
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A view along the Cleveland Dyke
A view looking down on Gribdale Terrace, a row of white cottages built to accommodate the quarrymen employed at the adjacent whinstone mine and quarry.
The line of the Whinstone or Cleveland Dyke can clearly be seen in the photograph, stretching from Cliff Rigg in the distance to behind the cottages where it follows the line of the road. The presence of the yellow gors ...
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The Rise and Fall of Alum Production in Great Ayton
As I descend from Capt. Cook's Monument, approaching Gribdale Terrace, the former whinstone quarrymen's cottages gleam white, with Cliff Rigg rising behind them. Before me, in the centre of the photo is a range of sandstone buildings mapped as Bank House Farm on the 1853 OS Six-inch map, but an auction advertisement in ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31921
#AytonBank #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #alum #history
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Everytime I go up to Capt. Cook’s Monument I find another area of clear felling
This is on Little Ayton Moor, above Hunter's Scar — note to self: have a look at this feature — revealing a view of the whole of the short valley between Roseberry Topping, Black Bank and Great Ayton Moor. A view that has not been seen for perhaps half a century.
To me, a view such as this, even on a wet and w ...
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Clear felling on Little Ayton Moor has opened up super views across Great Ayton Moor all the way to Highcliff Nab
A light overnight snowfall hides the debris from the forestry work.
I guess the remainder of the forestry will go in due course.
Great Ayton Moor has a wealth of archaeological features which I've posted about many ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30919
#AytonBank #ClevelandWay #GreatAytonMoor #Gribdale #LittleAytonMoor #Lonsdale #NorthYorkMoors #archaeological #snow
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An early start
It was dry when I left home but by Gribdale Gate, the wind had picked up and it was beginning to spit, and any thoughts of photography had been forgotten.
Still, it was pleasant to see Gribdale empty of cars; apart from two early dog walkers.
It's has always been a popular car park as the easiest ascent up to Capt. Cook's Monument, ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30716
#Capt.Cook'sMonument #GreatAyton #GreatAytonMoor #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #BeatingoftheBounds