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  1. When the Monks Assarted Bilsdale

    In windswept Bilsdale, a ring-fence of bank and ditch at Garfitts and a scatter of medieval sherds tell a story not often told. This was not always a quiet dale of lonely farms. For a brief, brittle spell it was a proving ground, a place where organised power tried to turn moor and forest into profit and permanence.

    The thirtee ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/04/when-th

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #history #medieval

  2. When the Monks Assarted Bilsdale

    In windswept Bilsdale, a ring-fence of bank and ditch at Garfitts and a scatter of medieval sherds tell a story not often told. This was not always a quiet dale of lonely farms. For a brief, brittle spell it was a proving ground, a place where organised power tried to turn moor and forest into profit and permanence.

    The thirtee ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/04/when-th

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #history #medieval

  3. When the Monks Assarted Bilsdale

    In windswept Bilsdale, a ring-fence of bank and ditch at Garfitts and a scatter of medieval sherds tell a story not often told. This was not always a quiet dale of lonely farms. For a brief, brittle spell it was a proving ground, a place where organised power tried to turn moor and forest into profit and permanence.

    The thirtee ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/04/when-th

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #history #medieval

  4. When the Monks Assarted Bilsdale

    In windswept Bilsdale, a ring-fence of bank and ditch at Garfitts and a scatter of medieval sherds tell a story not often told. This was not always a quiet dale of lonely farms. For a brief, brittle spell it was a proving ground, a place where organised power tried to turn moor and forest into profit and permanence.

    The thirtee ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/04/when-th

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #history #medieval

  5. When the Monks Assarted Bilsdale

    In windswept Bilsdale, a ring-fence of bank and ditch at Garfitts and a scatter of medieval sherds tell a story not often told. This was not always a quiet dale of lonely farms. For a brief, brittle spell it was a proving ground, a place where organised power tried to turn moor and forest into profit and permanence.

    The thirtee ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/04/when-th

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #history #medieval

  6. Urra: What’s in a Name?

    Urra. A name that sounds as if the wind itself whispered it across the moor. Once, according to Richard Blakeborough, this lonely hamlet in upper Bilsdale had a blacksmith and an inn – the twin hearts of any small community. Now it is little more than a name on a map, clinging to the edge of the North York Moors.

    Its origins are murky, and sch ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/02/urra-wh

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history

  7. Urra: What’s in a Name?

    Urra. A name that sounds as if the wind itself whispered it across the moor. Once, according to Richard Blakeborough, this lonely hamlet in upper Bilsdale had a blacksmith and an inn – the twin hearts of any small community. Now it is little more than a name on a map, clinging to the edge of the North York Moors.

    Its origins are murky, and sch ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/02/urra-wh

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history

  8. Urra: What’s in a Name?

    Urra. A name that sounds as if the wind itself whispered it across the moor. Once, according to Richard Blakeborough, this lonely hamlet in upper Bilsdale had a blacksmith and an inn – the twin hearts of any small community. Now it is little more than a name on a map, clinging to the edge of the North York Moors.

    Its origins are murky, and sch ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/02/urra-wh

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history

  9. Urra: What’s in a Name?

    Urra. A name that sounds as if the wind itself whispered it across the moor. Once, according to Richard Blakeborough, this lonely hamlet in upper Bilsdale had a blacksmith and an inn – the twin hearts of any small community. Now it is little more than a name on a map, clinging to the edge of the North York Moors.

    Its origins are murky, and sch ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/02/urra-wh

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history

  10. Urra: What’s in a Name?

    Urra. A name that sounds as if the wind itself whispered it across the moor. Once, according to Richard Blakeborough, this lonely hamlet in upper Bilsdale had a blacksmith and an inn – the twin hearts of any small community. Now it is little more than a name on a map, clinging to the edge of the North York Moors.

    Its origins are murky, and sch ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/02/urra-wh

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history

  11. The Ancient Hollow-Way to Nowhere in Particular

    The Public Bridleway from the hamlet of Urra winds its way up to another Right of Way that follows Billy’s Dyke, that Bronze Age boundary fortification of earth and stone. This grand construction supposedly gets its name from Billy Norman, better known elsewhere as William the Conqueror, ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/04/03/the-anc

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history #mediaeval

  12. The Ancient Hollow-Way to Nowhere in Particular

    The Public Bridleway from the hamlet of Urra winds its way up to another Right of Way that follows Billy’s Dyke, that Bronze Age boundary fortification of earth and stone. This grand construction supposedly gets its name from Billy Norman, better known elsewhere as William the Conqueror, ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/04/03/the-anc

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history #mediaeval

  13. The Ancient Hollow-Way to Nowhere in Particular

    The Public Bridleway from the hamlet of Urra winds its way up to another Right of Way that follows Billy’s Dyke, that Bronze Age boundary fortification of earth and stone. This grand construction supposedly gets its name from Billy Norman, better known elsewhere as William the Conqueror, ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/04/03/the-anc

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history #mediaeval

  14. The Ancient Hollow-Way to Nowhere in Particular

    The Public Bridleway from the hamlet of Urra winds its way up to another Right of Way that follows Billy’s Dyke, that Bronze Age boundary fortification of earth and stone. This grand construction supposedly gets its name from Billy Norman, better known elsewhere as William the Conqueror, ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/04/03/the-anc

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history #mediaeval

  15. The Ancient Hollow-Way to Nowhere in Particular

    The Public Bridleway from the hamlet of Urra winds its way up to another Right of Way that follows Billy’s Dyke, that Bronze Age boundary fortification of earth and stone. This grand construction supposedly gets its name from Billy Norman, better known elsewhere as William the Conqueror, ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/04/03/the-anc

    #Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #Urra #etymology #history #mediaeval

  16. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32062

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

  17. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32062

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

  18. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32062

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

  19. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32062

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

  20. 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 ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32062

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