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The Railway That Never Was: Helmsley to Thirsk, 1856
Look at this photograph of Gowerdale. Green, serene, and — rather importantly — entirely free of Victorian ironwork. It came within a whisker of being otherwise.
By 1856, Britain’s great Railway Mania was already ancient history — or at least a decade-old hangover. The mid-1840s had ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/04/the-railway-that-never-was-helmsley-to-thirsk-1856/
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Echoes over the Rye: The Now and Then of Hawnby
Perched high above the River Rye, on a lonely spur between moorland becks, stands the village of Hawnby. On a damp November morning, its muted greens melt into the hills around it. With houses dressed in matching tones, it has the look of an estate village—an echo of a time when the landlord demanded order, for order ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/11/11/echoes-over-the-rye-the-now-and-then-of-hawnby/
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Gower Dale: Where a Railway Never Came
This is Gower Dale in the Hambleton Hills. On the far left stands the ruined shell of Gowerdale House. Rising in the centre distance is Hawnby Hill. A tranquil landscape, untouched by the grime and noise of industry. It could have been very different, had Victorian ambition not faltered.
On Thursday, 19 May ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/08/08/gower-dale-where-a-railway-never-came/
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The Nuns’ Well: The Last Remains of St Andrews Priory
The so-called Nuns’ Well in Ryedale is a peculiar sight, sitting incongruously among the trees. A perfect circle, 2.4 metres across, with a stepped stone base and sides, it is thought to be medieval. Its water, fed by springs, is clear enough to impress those easily impressed by such things. It lies due north of the site of the Benedictine ...
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Jackson’s Bank—Medieval Trod
As you reach the top of Jackson’s Bank, it is hard not to imagine that, at the turn of the last century, weary walkers resting upon these boulders were serenaded by the rather pastoral sounds of iron-laden trucks grinding, screeching, and clattering their way down that incline on the opposite side of Greenhow B ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=36716
#CarrRidge #ClevelandHills #Greenhow #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #history #ironstone #medieval #railway
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Siberia on the Moors — A Lost Railway Community
For nigh on seventy years, this exposed stretch on Greenhow Moor, with its splendid panorama of the Cleveland Plain and beyond, served as home for a community of railway workers and their families.
Sited at the top of the Ingleby Incline, a cluster of building once stood here, in a location so remote and exposed that it earne ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34805
#GreenhowMoor #InglebyIncline #NorthYorkMoors #ironstone #railway
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A familiar scene to many …
... least not Cleveland Way walkers heading south to Helmsley. Walkers going clockwise will be trudging up this bank to Coate moor and Capt. Cook's Monument.
Bankside Farm itself probably dates from the 18th-century, while the distant building to the right is the former manager’s house and workshop for the Coate Moor Iron Company. The drift entrance ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31110
#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #ClevelandWay #ironstone #ironstonemining
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Crayaldstane
A dreary damp day with hardly no visibility so a fall back to that ubiquitous feature of the moors: standing stones.
Man has erected stones upright for many reasons: to delineate a boundary, as a waymarker, a religious symbol or a monument.
At Oakdale Head, on the parochial boundary between Hawnby and Nether Silton, you get two standing stones for the p ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30780
#Hawnby #NetherSilton #NorthYorkMoors #Snilesworth #etymology #medieval