#northyorkmoors — Public Fediverse posts

‘Hidden’ North Yorkshire glasshouse cafe visitors love in beautiful walled garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1749084/hidden-north-yorkshire-glasshouse-cafe-visitors-love-in-beautiful-walled-garden/ #garden #glasshouse #HelmsleyWalledGarden #NorthYorkMoors #NorthYorkshire #OutdoorSeating #VinehouseCafe #WalledGarden #YorkshireRose

Kirby Bank — A Hill With a Past

Bluebells pour down the sun-baked flank of Kirby Bank above the plain of Cleveland. Gorse burns yellow across the slopes. Below, the white walls of the Pybus Scout Centre gleam in the spring light. Beyond the green patchwork of fields, Roseberry Topping rises on the far hor ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/01/kirby-bank-a-hill-with-a-past/

#Kirby #KirkbyinCleveland #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #18thcentury #alum #history #medieval #monastic

Pirates, Sugar and Stone: The Carlton Bank Alum Works

Some industrial stories begin with a balance sheet. This one begins with a privateer’s cannon.

The alum works at Carlton Bank, gorged out of the Cleveland Hills, has a history that stretches from the Caribbean to the Cleveland coast. It is, when you look closely, a rather splendid ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/17/pirates-sugar-and-stone-the-carlton-bank-alum-works/

#CarltonBank #NorthYorkMoors #17thcentury #alum #history

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/

#AytonBanks #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors

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

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