Miley Pike

Miley Pike is a type of prehistoric round burial mound that was built during the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age. These mounds are located in important positions throughout the North York Moors and are an important part of the area's historical landscape.

Round barrows are ancient monuments that were used for burials. Miley Pike is a specific roun ...

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Crayaldstane

A dreary damp day with hardly no visibility so a fall back to that ubiquitous feature of the moors: standing stones.

Man has erected stones upright for many reasons: to delineate a boundary, as a waymarker, a religious symbol or a monument.

At Oakdale Head, on the parochial boundary between Hawnby and Nether Silton, you get two standing stones for the p ...

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Neil’s Howe

It was pleasing to see the Nelson Stone restored to its correct postion. Or should I say the 19th-century boundary stone.

One of the last times I was here, in 2017, it had vanished. I learnt later it had unceremoniously been dumped in a nearby pond. That act of vandalism must have taken some doing.

Although the larg ...

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