18th-Century Valentines

I noticed new trees have been planted on Busby Moor, that stretch of Cleveland Hills below Cringle Moor and Green Bank.

And so to St. Valentine's day, isn't this year flying by?

Francis Grose's 'A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', written in 1785, defines a 'valentine' as 'the first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman on St. Valentine's ...

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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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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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