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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