Greenhow Botton

Midnight Corner is rumored to have derived its name from the fact that it faces north, and during winter, it never receives sunlight. Midnight Farm is located on the extreme left and barely visible due to the haze. It's unclear which name came first, Midnight Corner or as Midnight Farm. Midnight Corner doesn't appear on any maps. Instead, the area is referred to as Greenhow Botton or Burton, with the la ...

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Abandoned sandstone quarry near Turkey Nab

A pair of cairns have been constructed on the nab itself, where once a gibbet stood, last used so I understand, in 1729, when Willam Parkinson was hung there in chains.

My notes say that Parkinson was tried at York assizes for the murder of a Scottish drover at Great Broughton. He was brought back north for the sentence to be carried out. All wi ...

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Quiz time: what is a scud?

If you'd have asked me a week or so ago, I would have said a Scud was a Soviet Union designed ballistic missiles used in the Iraq war.

I have since learnt that a scud is a glider, a low-level detached, irregular cloud, and an acronym that is too crude for me to repeat here, but something to do with dynamite.

This was all prompted by a reader ...

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Is this how the lord of the manor avoided mixing with the common folk?

Pevsner described St. Andrew's Church at Ingleby Greenhow as "Low, with a squat little bell-turret. The exterior seems unassumingly Georgian. It was in fact almost entirely rebuilt in 1741."

He goes on to identify various Norman architectual features, a window in the west wall of the bell-turret and some moulding around t ...

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Jackson’s Bank

A cold morning with the puddles covering by a skimpy layer of brittle ice, the first of the winter.

This is looking down on Greenhow Bottom from the top of Jackson's Bank.

I would love to find out who Jackson was. He is elusive but certainly lived before the first Ordnance Survey was published in 1857.

Greenhow Bottom is a township in the parish of Ingleby Greenh ...

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