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The Belt of Venus
I came across an article the other day about the Belt of Venus. It is one of those quiet marvels the sky puts on without fuss, turning up often enough, yet missed by most people because they are too busy staring straight at the sunset or sunrise like moths at a bulb. The trick is that it appears on the opposite side of the sky.
So, wit ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/01/05/the-belt-of-venus/
#CliffRigg #GreatAytonMoor #NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #Astronomy #sky
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Grey Weather and Old Ways on Newton Moor
A crisp, delightful morning on Newton Moor, in spite of a forecast that promises trouble. A depression over the Baltic is dragging down sharp northerly winds. That slab of grey on the horizon looks close enough to touch, yet, if that is so, it will be hanging over Scandinavia.
In the foreground runs ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/01/02/grey-weather-and-old-ways-on-newton-moor/
#NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #history #medieval #NationalTrust
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Lost Without Moving: Britain’s Wandering North
A cracking morning. This view looks north-east from Newton Moor, over Guisborough, out to the North Sea and whatever lies beyond it, behaving impeccably for once.
“Grid to mag, add; mag to grid, get rid” is the sort of mnemonic that lodges in the brain for life, usually thanks to the Cubs and a damp field. ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/12/13/lost-without-moving-britains-wandering-north/
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Purple Heather, Brown Truth
The ling, or common heather, has reached its peak bloom just days before the start of the grouse shooting season — the annual spectacle in which profit and sport take precedence over the land itself. This year, the display is patchy. Whole swathes have turned a brittle reddish-brown, appearing dead but ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/08/09/purple-heather-brown-truth/
#NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #CallunaVulgaris #GrouseMoorManagement #Ling #NationalTrust
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Cleveland: A County No One Wanted
All Fools’ Day 1974—the perfect occasion for bureaucratic tomfoolery. On this particular day, the North Riding of Yorkshire relinquished half of Roseberry Topping to the nascent “County of Cleveland.” A curious choice of name, given that “Cleveland” means “hilly land” in Old English, whereas this new county ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/04/01/cleveland-a-county-no-one-wanted/
#NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryCommon #RoseberryTopping #history
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‘Twas frost and thro leet wid a o’ greymin snaw“
Oh, it was but the gentlest sprinkle, a mere whisper of winter—a “greymin,” they used to call it—scarcely enough to cover the tops of these two boundary stones on Newton Moor.
The snow flurry arrived just as I was striding along the edge of the moor. There is nothing quite so invigorating as being caught in a swirl of snow.
These stones, age- ...
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After the Rain: Life on Newton Moor
A sky of blue is like a breath of fresh air after the dreary weather we’ve been enduring for the past week. It lifts the spirits, reminding us that sunlight still exists.
It is not every day that one sees standing water on Newton Moor. While the ground is often damp and there are always the odd boggy patches, to see water lingering at this high point is ... -
It were a bit barren on t’moors like, nowt much to see!
A view along the Cleveland Way as it traverses Newton Moor, with the elusive Highcliffe Nab shrouded in mist.
The cartulary concerning the founding of Gisborough Priory records a significant route named Melegate, extending from a point on the Percy Cross track, known as Molecros, to Roseberry Common. The Cleveland Way her ...http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=35840
#HighcliffNab #NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #mediaeval #NationalTrust
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Freeport Fearfulness
Even though this photo of Ryston Bank on Newton Moor was taken right within the North York Moors National Park, every square inch captured, right up to the North Sea in the distance, lies within the Teesport ‘Freeport outer boundary’, an arbitrary demarcation unmistakably drawn by some bureaucrat armed with nothing more than a pair of school drawing compasses.
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http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34292
#NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #RystonBank #Environment #Freeports
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Following the feetings
A ‘feetin’ is a North Yorkshire word for a mark or impression left by the foot. In East Anglian a variation, ‘feetings’, is used specifically for the tracks of creatures in the snow. I do like this use of the word.
Newton Moor had feetings in abundance this morning. Mostly Grouse, occasionally ending with the outline of their wings as they took off. But these feetings were undou ...
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The bleak moor under a sprinkling of snow
Overnight rain fell as snow on the high moor transforming the drab winter colours of the heather.
The question is did the snow fall after midnight or before — in which case we will have had a white Christmas.
The stone is the 19th-century boundary stone atop the round cairn on Newton Moor. It marks the former parishes of Hutton Lowcross and Newton and is inscribe ...
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“Lay pretty long in bed, and then rose, leaving my wife desirous to sleep, …
"... having sat up till four this morning seeing her mayds make mince-pies."
356 years ago, the Pepyses may have had a lie-in, but we were up and about on Little Roseberry taking in the fresh air and blue skies.Samuel Pepys went on to complete his diary entry:—
"I to church, where our parson Mills made a good sermo ...