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Hutton Moor—A Story of Ownership and Change
Hutton Moor, with Highcliff Nab and Guisborough in the distance, holds memories of the 1970s when I initially settled in the area. At that time, it bore scars of degradation due to off-road motorcyclists exploiting it as their playground. Under the ownership of the Owners of the Middlesbrough Estate, I found myself compelled to ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=35219
#Guisborough #HighcliffNab #HuttonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #1970s #19thcentury
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Hutton Moor — Biodiversity vs. Profit
This is Hutton Moor at the northern end of the Percy Cross Rigg track. I see that the self-seeded birch and spruce that have sprouted on the heather moorland have been unceremoniously cut down. The rationale is clear; if left unchecked, the moorland will eventually transform into a birch woodland. However, this does come at the cost of ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34717
#HuttonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #ClevealndWay #ecology #GrouseMoorManagement
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Plough Monday
The Monday after Epiphany used to be a day off for ploughmen up North. You'd enter a village and come across these agricultural labourers, all decked out in ribbons and those pristine white smocks, dragging the Fool-plough through the streets. It was their way of saying, 'Hey, don't forget, your bread depends on us pushing these ploughs!' Christmas time didn't line their pockets mu ...
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“The Glorious Twelfth” — A Tradition Under Scrutiny
The moors were eerily silent in this morning, a stark departure from the cacophony of gunfire that might be expected to reverberate across the heather today. Not a single report echoed in the air, just an eerie silence that draped the landscape like a shroud. Even the normally noisy grouse seem to sense an awareness of th ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=32868
#CodhillHeights #HuttonMoor #Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #GrouseShooting
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Ernaldsti, never a RUPP
Ernaldsti, that medieval track associated with the Percy family crossing Hutton Moor, down Percy Rigg and over to Ralph Cross, via Westerdale. I suspect that the true line of this historical route over the moor lies concealed within the hollow-way, just a stone's throw to the right of the modern track, and to the left of that spruce sapling.
Although the tr ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=32726
#HuttonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #PercyRigg #AccessRights #Ernaldsti
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Highcliffe Farm
I've posted about Highcliffe Farm before, located on the wide and shallow col between Highcliff Nab and Great Ayton Moor; unsheltered from the winds from the north and the south. One might question the wisdom of setting up a farm in such an exposed spot.
The landscape owes its origins to the ancient forces of nature; the col emerging as a spillway cascading southwards from ...
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Tussock-Skipping and Bog-Trotting — Adventures in Rivelindale
Today's misadventure took me to a wide, flat valley flanked by low heather-clad moors. Sounds lovely, right? But Codhill Slack, or Rivelindale to use its Medieval name, has a bottom that is a boggy morass with plenty of standing water, thanks to yesterday's heavy rain.
In the distance are a couple of well-known ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31893
#CodhillSlack #HighcliffNab #HuttonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #Rivelingdale