Operation Starfish: A Decoy on the Moor

It is widely known around here that this brick structure on Percy Rigg was once a World War Two control bunker, part of a secret Air Ministry plan to protect British towns from German bombing raids. The scheme relied on decoys—an unusual mix of science and theatre designed to mislead the Luftwaffe.

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Hill Hill and the Art of Furtling

It was one of those charming so-called “lazy winds”—the sort that cannot be bothered to go around you and instead cuts straight through, ensuring you feel every bit of its bitter, bone-chilling embrace. Hardly the sort of day for a leisurely stroll around Kildale Moor, but, there I have been, engaged in the enthralling task of surveying Bronze ...

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Percy Cross Rigg’s Hut Circles

I thought I would take a re-look at the Percy Rigg Iron Age hut circles. It has been quite some time. Alas, the perimeter fence lies in disrepair, casting a pall of melancholy over the entire site.

Located on the Percy Cross Rigg, just 460 metres down from the remains of the medieval cross, this round house site had eluded the notice of a ...

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Ernaldsti, never a RUPP

Ernaldsti, that medieval track associated with the Percy family crossing Hutton Moor, down Percy Rigg and over to Ralph Cross, via Westerdale. I suspect that the true line of this historical route over the moor lies concealed within the hollow-way, just a stone's throw to the right of the modern track, and to the left of that spruce sapling.

Although the tr ...

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Cercy Pross Rigg and its chet warm

On this day in 1844, a man named William Archibald Spooner was born. He later became an Anglican clergyman and warden of New College, Oxford. What made him famous were his 'Spoonerisms,' where he accidentally switched letters in phrases, resulting in amusing expressions like 'It is kisstomary to cuss the bride,' and 'a well-boiled icicle.'

So on the anniversary of S ...

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