Lake Greenhow: A Forgotten Relic of the Ice Age

Yesterday’s post led me to glaciers, glacial lakes, and the like. At Botton Head, my imagination ran riot.

Difficult as it is to picture now, 10,000 years ago, a glacier covered the Tees Valley before me. The ice sheet, it is well-known, never quite managed to smother the Nor ...

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Greenhow Botton with a Fleeting Glimpse the Birthplace of Ivor Cummings

A view down Greenhow Botton towards Roseberry, which distinctive shape barely manages to poke above the skyline. Remarkably, it is a clear day—clear enough that, far off in the distance, from this the highest point of the North York Moors, Hartlepool is visible, gleaming faintly through a break in the cloud ...

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Jackson’s Bank—Medieval Trod

As you reach the top of Jackson’s Bank, it is hard not to imagine that, at the turn of the last century, weary walkers resting upon these boulders were serenaded by the rather pastoral sounds of iron-laden trucks grinding, screeching, and clattering their way down that incline on the opposite side of Greenhow B ...

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Midnight Corner

Today's post comes swift and direct, plucked from the heights of the Ingleby Incline, that rapid ascent from the Cleveland plain to the moor's crest in just over a mile. Unveiled in 1861 and closed in 1929, this line's purpose was to transport Rosedale Ironstone to the steel mills of Ferryhill in County Durham.

Down below, the vast bowl known fondly as Midnight Corner, a name earned, ...

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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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