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Inheritance and Oblivion on Urra Moor
On the bleak expanse of Urra Moor, a lone boundary stone stands sentinel over the heather. Winter has tried to lay its white shroud over the name FOULIS, once lord of the manor at Ingleby, but hasn’t quite succeded. It reads like a quiet obituary in stone, the record of a family slipping out of the world ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/02/14/inheritance-and-oblivion-on-urra-moor/
#InglebyGreenhow #NorthYorkMoors #UrraMoor #19thcentury #history
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Billy’s Dyke on the High Moor
Just after the midwinter feast of 1070, William the Conqueror, fresh from Christmas in York, marched north to settle a score. His garrison at Durham had been slaughtered, and he meant to answer blood with fire. What followed was ruin on a grand scale. Villages, farms, whole stretches of countryside were wiped clean, with no one l ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/12/19/billys-dyke-on-the-high-moor/
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Billy’s Dyke on the High Moor
Just after the midwinter feast of 1070, William the Conqueror, fresh from Christmas in York, marched north to settle a score. His garrison at Durham had been slaughtered, and he meant to answer blood with fire. What followed was ruin on a grand scale. Villages, farms, whole stretches of countryside were wiped clean, with no one l ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/12/19/billys-dyke-on-the-high-moor/
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Billy’s Dyke on the High Moor
Just after the midwinter feast of 1070, William the Conqueror, fresh from Christmas in York, marched north to settle a score. His garrison at Durham had been slaughtered, and he meant to answer blood with fire. What followed was ruin on a grand scale. Villages, farms, whole stretches of countryside were wiped clean, with no one l ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/12/19/billys-dyke-on-the-high-moor/
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Billy’s Dyke on the High Moor
Just after the midwinter feast of 1070, William the Conqueror, fresh from Christmas in York, marched north to settle a score. His garrison at Durham had been slaughtered, and he meant to answer blood with fire. What followed was ruin on a grand scale. Villages, farms, whole stretches of countryside were wiped clean, with no one l ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/12/19/billys-dyke-on-the-high-moor/
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Billy’s Dyke on the High Moor
Just after the midwinter feast of 1070, William the Conqueror, fresh from Christmas in York, marched north to settle a score. His garrison at Durham had been slaughtered, and he meant to answer blood with fire. What followed was ruin on a grand scale. Villages, farms, whole stretches of countryside were wiped clean, with no one l ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/12/19/billys-dyke-on-the-high-moor/
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The Witch-Mare of Orra—A Forgotten Nightmare Myth
Ah, Urra—barely discernible through the oppressive cloud that choked my aimless trudge around the moor it so generously lends its name to. It is also the setting for the utterly enthralling tale of the Witch-Mare of Orra. A legend I have alluded to with tiresome frequency, though clearly without bothering to grasp its finer point ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=37219
#Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #UrraMoor #folklore #RichardBlakeborough
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Cheese, Stones, and a Summer Solstice Alignment
I've been diving back into that book, "Rock Art and Ritual," the one I got off eBay a few weeks back. It's been giving me the itch to go revisit some of the out of the way nooks and crannies on the North York Moors.
So today, I took a little jaunt around Urra Moor, with a slight detour to check out that massive outcrop o ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33054
#Bilsdale #GarfittGap #NorthYorkMoors #UrraMoor #wainstones #prehistoric
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Nanny Newgill, the Broughton Witch — Part II
Back on the Cleveland Hills after a few days break. I was reminded crossing Urra Moor that I need to post the second part of Richard Blakeborough's 1902 tale of Nanny Newgill, the Broughton Witch.
For Part I see here.
NANNY NEWGILL, THE BROUGHTON WITCH.
SYNOPSIS OF PART I.
Dinah Curry, a Broughton girl, marries a stranger ...http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31091
#ClevelandHills #ColdMoor #NorthYorkMoors #UrraMoor #WhiteHill #folklore
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Carr Ridge, Urra Moor
It is recorded that this standing stone is a "Post Medieval" waymarker. A stone has stood over 450 winters reassuring travellers across the bleak Urra Moor, the highest point of the North York Moors.
The only sound that broke the muffling of the cloud was the frequent 'go-back, back, back' call of the Red grouse celebrating their survival of another year's shooting season.
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