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The forgotten High Dam at Cod Beck

In August 2021, in the aftermath of the Covid rules, I went on a guided walk led by a local historian to explore the history of Scarth Wood Moor. During the walk, the historian mentioned that the High Dam at Cod Beck had burst in 1857. According to my notes, a local farmer noticed the leakage and immediately ran to the mill to warn its occupants.

Before the ...

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W.T. Stead and the birth of tabloid journalism

On this day, April 10th, 1912, the luxurious liner Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage from Berth 44 at the White Star Line dock in Southampton, with the destination of New York. A total of 920 passengers were on board, comprising 179 First-Class, 247 Second-Class, and 494 Third-Class passengers.

Among the First-Class passeng ...

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Nan Hardwicke — Witch or Hare? The Folklore of Cleveland

There are very few Cleveland villages which, at one time or another, one of the inhabitants had not been stigmatised as a witch. More often than not, it was some lonely old woman, past her childbearing age, probably widowed but more than likely without any degree of patriarchal protection.

The most celebrated of these w ...

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#Ainthorpe #Danby #NorthYorkMoors #19th-century #folklore #history

Butts and bullets: A bimble up Butt Lane

Walking up Butt Lane (right of centre in the photo), I couldn't help but notice the "tree-mendous" (sorry) amount of felling that's taken place in Guisborough Woods in recent years. And, lo and behold, I saw an obvious path leading upwards. I had never seen it before, which turned out to be the work of daredevil downhill mountain bike riders. Fortunately, ...

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#Guisborough #NorthYorkMoors #19th-century #history

Cock Howe and beyond — A bimble down Arnsgill

A day spent manning the last checkpoint on Cock Howe on the Bilsdale Fell Race. A long day, but I managed to have a bimble down Arnsgill beforehand.

At the top of Arnsgill stands Head House, a remote farmhouse that dates from the late eighteenth century and heightened in the first half of the nineteenth century. Nowadays, it serves as a gamekeepers' hut, an ...

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Skelton Tower

Corn Hill Point, a headland of a grassy plateau  overlooking Newton Dale down which runs the North York Moors Railway.

During the times of the Napoleonic wars, the plateau was ploughed up and used for growing crops, Hence the origin of the name.

Perched on the tip are the ruins of Skelton Tower,  a two-storey former shooting lodge was built before the late 1840s by the former rector of L ...

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The sight of low cloud from Bilsdale pouring over the cols in the Cleveland Hills always leaves me with wonder

This is looking down on Green Bank, a flattish ring contour rise marking the head of Raisdale, and separating Cringle or Cranimoor from the steep slope up Carlton Bank. The col is nowadays more commonly known as the 'Lordstones' on account of t ...

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Tonight's session was brought to you by a nice Glenlivet and some Hazy Jane. Boxing Day pottering. Tricorns done. Next batch lined up. Preparing some stuff for Ayton 2023. Matt varnish the shiny and texture the bases. Probably...

#wargaming #c18th #19th #imaginations

Ward Nab (aka Cook’s Crags)

Ward Nab on the edge of Coate Moor is much beloved by local climbers who know it simply as Cook's Crags. It overlooks the sleepy village of Kildale — the dale of Chil — and used to host a medieval market. Even in more recent times it had a pub, a post office, and a school.

John Blakeborough writing in the Northern Weekly Gazette in 1904 tells the story ...

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#CoateMoor #Cook'sCrags #Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #19th-century

Details of Venus in her Chariot driven by two doves (English School, 19th Century).

#Art #Venus #Mythology #RomanMythology #19thCenturyArt #19th Century

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One of the opportunities of winter is the reduction in tree cover

The woodland floor becomes airy and light. New vistas are opened up.

Climbing up the steep path from the River Leven through Bleach Mill Intake my interest was piqued by a stack of dressed stones in the defile below.

Although I don't think the stones are in their original position they are evidence of the bleach m ...

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#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #RiverLeven #19th-century #BleachMill

A temperature inversion covered the lowlands around Stokesley this morning, inching up the steep banks of the Cleveland Hills

The sheep munching away on the col between Cringle and Cold Moors are apathetically unaware of the creeping cloud.

The distinctive red earth is a spoil heap from jet working that has been burnt to convert the ...

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