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The Hanging Stone
Overlooking the heavily forested Hutton Lowcross, the sandstone outcrop at the end of Ryston Nab is well known as the Hanging Stone, presumably because it 'hangs' over the valley, rather than it being a site of execution.
Ryston Nab, the nose on which it's on, has a more interesting etymology.
It survives from the 14th-century name of 'Reefstoneshaw' for the ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31123
#HuttonLowcross #NorthYorkMoors #RystonNab #etymology #sandstone
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A day of strange atmospherics
On this day in 2005, at 0601 in the morning, a huge explosion rocked an oil depot in Buncefield near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It was the largest in peacetime Europe and the noise is said to have been heard as far away as the Netherlands.
I seem to remember people at work saying they had heard the boom ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30877
#Capt.Cook'sMonument #EasbyMoor #EasbyMoor #Guisborough #NorthYorkMoors #RystonNab #temperatureinversion