#scugdale — Public Fediverse posts
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Fire, Fumes, and Fatality: Scugdale’s Calcining Kiln
In the early 19th century, Scugdale was an unremarkable little dale where people busied themselves with weaving and bleaching fine linens. The local economy depended on at least four water mills, all fed by the ever-reliable Scugdale Beck. That is, until 1857, when pr ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/15/fire-fumes-and-fatality-scugdales-calcining-kiln/
#NorthYorkMoors #Scugdale #history #IndustrialArchaeology #IronstoneMining
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Fire, Fumes, and Fatality: Scugdale’s Calcining Kiln
In the early 19th century, Scugdale was an unremarkable little dale where people busied themselves with weaving and bleaching fine linens. The local economy depended on at least four water mills, all fed by the ever-reliable Scugdale Beck. That is, until 1857, when pr ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/15/fire-fumes-and-fatality-scugdales-calcining-kiln/
#NorthYorkMoors #Scugdale #history #IndustrialArchaeology #IronstoneMining
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Fire, Fumes, and Fatality: Scugdale’s Calcining Kiln
In the early 19th century, Scugdale was an unremarkable little dale where people busied themselves with weaving and bleaching fine linens. The local economy depended on at least four water mills, all fed by the ever-reliable Scugdale Beck. That is, until 1857, when pr ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/15/fire-fumes-and-fatality-scugdales-calcining-kiln/
#NorthYorkMoors #Scugdale #history #IndustrialArchaeology #IronstoneMining
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Fire, Fumes, and Fatality: Scugdale’s Calcining Kiln
In the early 19th century, Scugdale was an unremarkable little dale where people busied themselves with weaving and bleaching fine linens. The local economy depended on at least four water mills, all fed by the ever-reliable Scugdale Beck. That is, until 1857, when pr ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/15/fire-fumes-and-fatality-scugdales-calcining-kiln/
#NorthYorkMoors #Scugdale #history #IndustrialArchaeology #IronstoneMining
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Fire, Fumes, and Fatality: Scugdale’s Calcining Kiln
In the early 19th century, Scugdale was an unremarkable little dale where people busied themselves with weaving and bleaching fine linens. The local economy depended on at least four water mills, all fed by the ever-reliable Scugdale Beck. That is, until 1857, when pr ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/15/fire-fumes-and-fatality-scugdales-calcining-kiln/
#NorthYorkMoors #Scugdale #history #IndustrialArchaeology #IronstoneMining
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Nature’s Canvas on Whorlton Moor
Of all the boulders on the North York Moors, this is perhaps my favourite. It rests nestled in the heather on Stony Ridge on Whorlton Moor, but back in the last ice age, it would've been getting a good washing from the waves along the shore of Lake Scugdale.
Now, in places where fungi and algae struggle to thrive, evolution has come up with a symbiotic ...
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Distress in Scugdale — the consequences of ladder traps
As I was wandering around the head of Scugdale, something caught my attention: a ladder trap filled with birds. Two crows were stuck inside, looking distressed, and my heart sank. Although they had water, shelter, and plenty of food (dead rabbits), they were trapped and unable to escape. Upon closer inspection, I realised that the trap was furthe ...