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Cloudfall

Up on the moors above Greenhow Botton today, where the Cleveland Hills were doing their best impression of a waterfall in the clouds. The kind of view that makes the uphill pedal entirely worth it. Just another quiet Wednesday on the North York Moors.

At the head of the valley lies Midnight Corner, which never sees sunlight in the depth of winter becaus ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/04/cloudfall/

#ClevelandHills #InglebyGreenhow #NorthYorkMoors #etymology #history

The Twisting Plume of Ingleby Greenhow

A familiar landscape, yet on a still autumnal day in the Vale of Cleveland, when not a single turbine blade so much as twitches, an unexpected sight smudges the view. A solitary plume of smoke twists into the air, unsettling in its beauty, creating a scene both ordinary and strangely unfamiliar.

At first glance, it ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/10/11/the-twisting-plume-of-ingleby-greenhow/

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Witch Tree, Maiden Tree

This week, public outrage greeted the news that two men have been found guilty of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree beside Hadrian’s Wall.

Though obviously a cultural icon, sycamores are not native to Britain. The tree came from Europe and only arrived in Britain around the fifteenth or sixteenth century. The idea that Robin Hood passed it on his way ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/05/10/witch-tree-maiden-tree/

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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/

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Greenhow Botton with a Fleeting Glimpse the Birthplace of Ivor Cummings

A view down Greenhow Botton towards Roseberry, which distinctive shape barely manages to poke above the skyline. Remarkably, it is a clear day—clear enough that, far off in the distance, from this the highest point of the North York Moors, Hartlepool is visible, gleaming faintly through a break in the cloud ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36935

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Midnight Corner

Today's post comes swift and direct, plucked from the heights of the Ingleby Incline, that rapid ascent from the Cleveland plain to the moor's crest in just over a mile. Unveiled in 1861 and closed in 1929, this line's purpose was to transport Rosedale Ironstone to the steel mills of Ferryhill in County Durham.

Down below, the vast bowl known fondly as Midnight Corner, a name earned, ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33635

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Ingleby Stone Quarry Company

Howling wind and relentless rain were more than enough to persuade me that a brisk walk on the open moor was no place to be. So, I cunningly decided to park up at Bank Foot and set out for a saunter in the sheltered woods that cover Ingleby Bank.

I soon found myself on the middle track, usually very muddy, and caught sight of the old tramway, complete with t ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33599

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Checking on Medusa: A Slippery Slope to the Ancient Oak

Caught on Greenhow Bank in a shower and finding myself taking more time than anticipated, I decided to take a shortcut by descending the bank directissimo, which led me to a spot above Medusa.

My thought I would pay a visit to the old gorgon to check on her well-being. The descent was nothing short of heart-pounding, as I manoeuvered ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33232

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Greenhow Botton

Midnight Corner is rumored to have derived its name from the fact that it faces north, and during winter, it never receives sunlight. Midnight Farm is located on the extreme left and barely visible due to the haze. It's unclear which name came first, Midnight Corner or as Midnight Farm. Midnight Corner doesn't appear on any maps. Instead, the area is referred to as Greenhow Botton or Burton, with the la ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31984

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Abandoned sandstone quarry near Turkey Nab

A pair of cairns have been constructed on the nab itself, where once a gibbet stood, last used so I understand, in 1729, when Willam Parkinson was hung there in chains.

My notes say that Parkinson was tried at York assizes for the murder of a Scottish drover at Great Broughton. He was brought back north for the sentence to be carried out. All wi ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31443

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Quiz time: what is a scud?

If you'd have asked me a week or so ago, I would have said a Scud was a Soviet Union designed ballistic missiles used in the Iraq war.

I have since learnt that a scud is a glider, a low-level detached, irregular cloud, and an acronym that is too crude for me to repeat here, but something to do with dynamite.

This was all prompted by a reader ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30934

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