#roseberrytopping — Public Fediverse posts

Elfi The Dwarf — The Story Told at Ye Sign of the Fox & Hounds, Urra

The notion of transcribing these ancient folk tales of Richard Blakeborough, thought to be a splendid idea at first, an idea born during the Covid lockdown, now gnaws at my conscience with growing unease. Recent reports detailing the modification of Roald Dahl's cherishe ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=32062

#Castleton #HuttonleHole #Lastingham #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #Urra #folklore #RichardBlakeborough

A Forgotten Quarry—With a view of Roseberry

A broken down dry-stone wall enticed me to scramble over for a gander and I stumbled upon an old sandstone quarry I never knew existed with a view of Roseberry from an angle I’ve not seen before.

Ah, the uncomplicated pleasures of discovery.

It wasn't a large quarry, and a quick count reveals it to be one of twelve mapped betwee ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33881

#AytonBank #GreatAyton #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #quarrying

“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