My Tree-mendous adventures on a dendrometric survey in Bransdale

Sorry about the title, but it has been an enjoyable day conducting an ancient and veteran tree survey for the National Trust in Bransdale. Starting downstream from the mill along the Hodge Beck, it was a day exploring the little visited parts of the dale. But perhaps it would have been wiser to begin with easy trees along the field boundarie ...

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A day with National Trust: replacing the fencing at Stork House

I recall reading that the path that runs through Stocking Crag wood and passes Stork House was the original route in and out of the valley, though I'm unsure of the source. Unfortunately, due to landslides within the wood, it's nearly impossible to navigate through it without using your own two feet.

Today being Thursday, I joined the Nati ...

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“Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”

In the moorland dales, the quality and excellence of available building stones are the primary factors that have influenced building construction. The Jurassic rocks have been worked in numerous quarries in all the dales and provided an abundance of stone, which has been used to build abbeys, churches, mansions, bridges, buildings in ...

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“Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”

In the moorland dales, the quality and excellence of available building stones are the primary factors that have influenced building construction. The Jurassic rocks have been worked in numerous quarries in all the dales and provided an abundance of stone, which has been used to build abbeys, churches, mansions, bridges, buildings in ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31932

#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #NationalTrust #Stonemasonry

“Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”

In the moorland dales, the quality and excellence of available building stones are the primary factors that have influenced building construction. The Jurassic rocks have been worked in numerous quarries in all the dales and provided an abundance of stone, which has been used to build abbeys, churches, mansions, bridges, buildings in ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31932

#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #NationalTrust #Stonemasonry

“Stone is a living thing, not a piece of dead matter”

In the moorland dales, the quality and excellence of available building stones are the primary factors that have influenced building construction. The Jurassic rocks have been worked in numerous quarries in all the dales and provided an abundance of stone, which has been used to build abbeys, churches, mansions, bridges, buildings in ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31932

#Bransdale #NorthYorkMoors #NationalTrust #Stonemasonry

Bransdale is a peaceful community consisting of dispersed farmsteads that has remained seemingly unaltered throughout history. At one time, Eastside and Westside were two separate townships, each belonging to different parishes. Nonetheless, they were combined in 1873 to establish Bransdale-cum-Farndale.

Bransdale differs from typical communities in that it lacks a central village. However, Cockayne, ...

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National Trust Landscapes: High and Low Lidmoor Farms

From near Stork House on Bransdale Westside, there is a stunning view of the lower dale with the twin farms of High and Low Lidmoor. Hodge Beck is graced with deciduous trees, while on the left side of the photo, on the high ground, stands a commercial conifer plantation. All the land in the photograph belongs to the National Trust, with the only excep ...

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The Winter of 1947: How the R.A.F. Mountain Rescue Squadron Saved Bransdale from Isolation

As we stepped out of the car in Bransdale this morning, the air was thick with dampness. The high moors that loomed in the distance were shrouded in a blanket of clouds, giving the dale a gloomy feel. Looking up Bransdale's East Side, Spout House stands isolated on the right.

Spout House gained national attention in 1955 for b ...

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A dreich morning in Bransdale

This impressive holloway or sunken lane was once one of the major routes out of the dale. Climbing up from Groat House, it is shown on the 1857 OS Six-inch O.S. map. It is also shown on an earlier map of 1828, but not on one of 1782.

The term 'holloway' derives from the Old English 'hola weg' meaning a sunken road formed after repeated use over many centuries by the passage of people, anima ...

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Bransdale — a dire forecast but it turned out alright

With flashes of sunshine from the blue-bores sweeping down the dale.

Back at Barkers Plantation in Bransdale, the National Trust property in the heart of the North York Moors.
But approaching the woodland from a different direction so a view I've never seen before.
The house at the bottom of the photo is named Wind Hill, relatively modern but on ...

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Bransdale — again

Second visit this week. Appropiate this day because on 12 January, 1895, the National Trust was incorporated  by three Victorian philanthropists — Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.

Bransdale is of course a National Trust property, predominately comprising the dale farms, which was transferred to the Trust through the National Land Fund in 1972 ...

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Bransdale — again

Second visit this week. Appropiate this day because on 12 January, 1895, the National Trust was incorporated  by three Victorian philanthropists — Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.

Bransdale is of course a National Trust property, predominately comprising the dale farms, which was transferred to the Trust through the National Land Fund in 1972.

Oc ...

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I have been in Bransdale many times mostly volunteering with the National Trust …

... but those visits have been very localised, coming and going in the back of a pick-up.

Today I had the opportunity for a walk around the dale accompanied by a resident and seeing views and places I've never before noticed. Plus the weather was kind to us.

The featured photo is a view west across the dale. Centre i ...

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A day spent with the National Trust in Barker Plantation in Bransdale

The 36 acre plantation is largely coniferous, planted as a commercial crop more than likely before the property was given to the Trust by Charles Ingram Courtney, Earl of Halifax and others, in 1975.

With contractors due to come in in a year or two to fell the larch and spruce only, mature oaks, Scots pine and patches of sp ...

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Bransdale

Only the ice covered road in the foreground is a give away for the temperature. A brisk day in Bransdale, blue skies and brilliant sunshine.

In spite of snow falling overnight on the coastal North York Moors, not a flake had fallen on Blakey Ridge for the drive over.
...

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Two-stoop yate

'Gate', as in Westgate and Belmangate of Guisborough, is an old Scandinavian word meaning a ‘way’ or ‘road’. This is etymologically different to the modern useage of the word, which stems from the Old English word 'geat' for a "door, opening, passage, or hinged framework barrier".

In Yorkshire though, we say 'yate', 'yat' or 'yet'. Thus the old name for Chop Gate is 'Chop Yat' ...

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The unmistakable silouette of Scots Pine …

... 'haloed' by the National Trust to give a breathing space and a chance to harden up once the remaining larch plantation is felled next winter.

These trees are on a ridge called, quite coincidentally I think Scot Ridge, in Bransdale in the heart of the North York Moors.

Barker Plantation is shown on the 1857 OS Six-inch map, ...

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