Tussock-Skipping and Bog-Trotting — Adventures in Rivelindale

Today's misadventure took me to a wide, flat valley flanked by low heather-clad moors. Sounds lovely, right? But Codhill Slack, or Rivelindale to use its Medieval name, has a bottom that is a boggy morass with plenty of standing water, thanks to yesterday's heavy rain.

In the distance are a couple of well-known ...

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A boundary stone on Hutton Moor

A boundary stone on Hutton Moor inscribed on the north-east face with "RC TC 1856" which stand for Robert and Thomas Chaloner who inherited the manor of Guisborough in turn on the death of their father, also named Robert, in 1842.

On this day in 1649, the funeral of King Charles I took place. His dignity during his trial and execution had won him much sympathy and he ...

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