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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

Swifts on Roseberry, Silence on Easby Moor

It has been a while since I last stood on Roseberry, looking down on clouds. And even longer since I came up here on a Saturday. Most seemed to have taken the yellow thunderstorm warning as a cue to stay indoors. Easby Moor, with its pointed monument to Captain Cook, rose clean above the mist.

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http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/07/19/swifts-on-roseberry-silence-on-easby-moor/

#CaptCooksMonument #EasbyMoor #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping