When Eskdale Held Its Breath
A dreich day in Bransdale, so I am clinging to a favourite photo from yesterday, taken high above the clouds under a blue sky. It does the soul some good to watch mist creep up the dale while back home in the Tees valley was wrapped in damp fog like a forgotten parcel, although I did not know that at the time. Nature’s q ...
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Great Fryup Dale: Cooking Up Change
Nestled in the dramatic expanse of the North York Moors National Park, where heather dominates the moors, trees line the becks in the dales, and the coastline is battered by the North Sea, lies Great Fryup Dale, a place as delectable as its name. It is, by all appearances, a great deal like its sibling, Little Fryup Dale—though, of course, it is the larger and presumably ...
Fryup Heads
An "isolated eminence", according to the Rev. Canon Atkinson, seems an elegant way of describing the hill known as Heads, which separates the dales of Little and Great Fryup.
Although designated 'Open Access Land' there are few ways up onto the hill, consequently, it seems quiet and little walked. But historically it has been well used. Field systems, ditches, clearance cairns and e ...
An "isolated eminence", according to the Rev. Canon Atkinson, seems an elegant way of describing the hill known as Heads, which separates the dales of Little and Great Fryup. Although designated 'Open Access Land' there are few ways up onto the hill, consequently, it seems quiet and little walked. But historically it has been well … <p class="link-more"><a href="http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=31553" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Fryup Heads"</span></a></p>
Mick Garratt