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Patches of purple heather just down from Easy Moor, looking across Cockshaw Hill to the profile of Roseberry Topping, near Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.
The distinctive half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, lends itself to being compared with the much higher Matterhorn in the Swiss-Italian Alps.
However, with a height of 1,049 feet (320 m), Roseberry Topping is but a bump in the landscape compared against the real thing whose summit soars to 14,692 ft (4,478 m).
The countryside just now reflecting the season of summer beginning to wind down, making way for autumn arriving in just over a week.
Great views from up here on a clear day making it definitely worth while bring the binoculars (and a camera!).
#england #yorkshire #northyorkmoors #greatayton #summer #september #landscape #photography -
Patches of purple heather just down from Easy Moor, looking across Cockshaw Hill to the profile of Roseberry Topping, near Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.
The distinctive half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, lends itself to being compared with the much higher Matterhorn in the Swiss-Italian Alps.
However, with a height of 1,049 feet (320 m), Roseberry Topping is but a bump in the landscape compared against the real thing whose summit soars to 14,692 ft (4,478 m).
The countryside just now reflecting the season of summer beginning to wind down, making way for autumn arriving in just over a week.
Great views from up here on a clear day making it definitely worth while bring the binoculars (and a camera!).
#england #yorkshire #northyorkmoors #greatayton #summer #september #landscape #photography -
Patches of purple heather just down from Easy Moor, looking across Cockshaw Hill to the profile of Roseberry Topping, near Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.
The distinctive half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, lends itself to being compared with the much higher Matterhorn in the Swiss-Italian Alps.
However, with a height of 1,049 feet (320 m), Roseberry Topping is but a bump in the landscape compared against the real thing whose summit soars to 14,692 ft (4,478 m).
The countryside just now reflecting the season of summer beginning to wind down, making way for autumn arriving in just over a week.
Great views from up here on a clear day making it definitely worth while bring the binoculars (and a camera!).
#england #yorkshire #northyorkmoors #greatayton #summer #september #landscape #photography -
Patches of purple heather just down from Easy Moor, looking across Cockshaw Hill to the profile of Roseberry Topping, near Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.
The distinctive half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, lends itself to being compared with the much higher Matterhorn in the Swiss-Italian Alps.
However, with a height of 1,049 feet (320 m), Roseberry Topping is but a bump in the landscape compared against the real thing whose summit soars to 14,692 ft (4,478 m).
The countryside just now reflecting the season of summer beginning to wind down, making way for autumn arriving in just over a week.
Great views from up here on a clear day making it definitely worth while bring the binoculars (and a camera!).
#england #yorkshire #northyorkmoors #greatayton #summer #september #landscape #photography -
Patches of purple heather just down from Easy Moor, looking across Cockshaw Hill to the profile of Roseberry Topping, near Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.
The distinctive half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, lends itself to being compared with the much higher Matterhorn in the Swiss-Italian Alps.
However, with a height of 1,049 feet (320 m), Roseberry Topping is but a bump in the landscape compared against the real thing whose summit soars to 14,692 ft (4,478 m).
The countryside just now reflecting the season of summer beginning to wind down, making way for autumn arriving in just over a week.
Great views from up here on a clear day making it definitely worth while bring the binoculars (and a camera!).
#england #yorkshire #northyorkmoors #greatayton #summer #september #landscape #photography -
#NorthYorkMoors #Yorkshire #NYM #NorthYorkshireMoors #Moors #UK #NorthYorkshire #England #Fires #Wildfire #Wildfires #Moorland #Fire #England #Britain #News #BBC #Countryside #Country #Warning Considering the UK’s moorland becomes tinder dry in summer, the stupidity of some people is hard to believe. The fire damage was catastrophic, and the second inferno was started by a smoker who dropped a cigarette after stopping to watch the first…
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The farce is over …
The farce is over — the “idle and useless pageant” has gone by — the doll has been dressed, dizened, and exhibited — a host of gawping idlers have been gratified with a spectacle, while the madness of the moment has been improved by the political beasts of prey to the strengthening of their fangs and claws. Now, that we have time to breathe, let us enquire “why was ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=32047
#Levisham #NorthYorkMoors #19th-century #Coronation #history
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Joseph Foord: The Man Who Brought Water to Fadmoor and Gillamoor
This is Sleighthome Dale, which is drained by Hodge Beck. Bransdale is upstream and Kirkdale is downstream, but it's unclear where one dale ends and the other begins.
Across the dale, there's a limestone plateau called Boon Hill, with the twin villages of Fadmoor and Gillamoor. In the 18th century, both villag ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31948
#NorthYorkMoors #SleightholmeDale #TabularHills #18th-century #history
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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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The Ionic Temple, Rievaulx Terrace
They say that things often come in threes, and that certainly seems to be the case for me this week, as I have encountered the Duncombe family for the third time.
In 1687, a nouveau riche banker named Sir Charles Duncombe purchased the Rievaulx and Helmsley estates for the staggering sum of £90,000. He was known as one of the richest commoners in ...http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31846
#NorthYorkMoors #Rievaulx #18th-century #history #NationalTrust
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The old road to Westerdale
The moors are filled with standing stones that span across different periods in history. You can find prehistoric monoliths, medieval structures, and even contemporary edifices scattered throughout the vast terrain.
According to the 1853 6" O.S. map, there is a boundary stone labelled Stockesley Cross located near the ruins of a supposed smugglers' hideout ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31792
#Basedale #NorthYorkMoors #Westerdale #18th-century #medieval
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In Baysdale Beck
Two stoops or gateposts mark a long-lost crossing of Baysdale Beck about 275 metres upstream of the modern-day ford at Hob Hole. The width between the post suggests a passage on foot and for pack horses only.
"Ploughman", writing in 1908, observed that "the supports of an ancient bridge is still preserved, by the interweaving strength of the numerous roots of trees".
...http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31597
#Basedale #Baysdale #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #medieval
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18th-Century Valentines
I noticed new trees have been planted on Busby Moor, that stretch of Cleveland Hills below Cringle Moor and Green Bank.
And so to St. Valentine's day, isn't this year flying by?
Francis Grose's 'A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', written in 1785, defines a 'valentine' as 'the first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman on St. Valentine's ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31547
#CringleMoor #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #Valentine'sDay
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Skelton Tower
Corn Hill Point, a headland of a grassy plateau overlooking Newton Dale down which runs the North York Moors Railway.
During the times of the Napoleonic wars, the plateau was ploughed up and used for growing crops, Hence the origin of the name.
Perched on the tip are the ruins of Skelton Tower, a two-storey former shooting lodge was built before the late 1840s by the former rector of L ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31529
#Levisham #NorthYorkMoors #19th-century
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“T’ biggest hill in all Yorkshur”
It is generally accepted that the now populous district of the North Riding which we call Cleveland is bounded on its southern extremity by the Cleveland Hills. This is not so.
The district of Cleveland comprises the archdeaconry of that name, which extends considerably farther south, as far as Picker ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31516
#ClevelandHills #CliffRidgeWood #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #18th-century #medieval #NationalTrust
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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 ...
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Some days photographic opportunities are few and far between
Today was such a day. Rain, drizzle, a brief interlude of bright sunshine, then more drizzle, followed by a touch of rain.
I was on the bridleway mapped as Skinner Howe Cross Path crossing Great Hograh Moor when the sun made one of its brief appearances. This is looking north-west across Baysdale ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30817
#Basedale #Baysdale #GreatHograhMoor #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #Christmas #MincePies
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Guisborough Races, 1784: Asses, Mens’ sack race, Ladies, and a Soap-tail’d Pig
Guisborough, population around 17,000. At the turn of the 19th-century, in the 1801 cenus, it was a mere 1,719. This was the eve of the industrial revolution, nevertheless it was the largest town in the area, the focal point of trade, although the alum industry, once a major employer, was in decline.
...http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30745
#Guisborough #HighcliffNab #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #sports