The “T” Stones of Bilsdale West Moor

The North York Moors are littered with boundary stones, each one usually stamped with a dutiful little initial, the sort of thing an aristocratic landowner might choose when feeling terribly important. An “M” for Manners, an “F” for Feversham, a “CD” for Charles Duncombe. All very neat, all very tidy. Then you stumble upo ...

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High Hazel Heads

Hidden deep in a dark conifer plantation, where Goldcrests tweet high among the needles — or so I was told, an old man’s hearing failing to pick up the high frequencies — lies the forgotten farmstead of High Hazel Heads. Few come here now, and fewer still would guess that beneath these trees once lay a thriving patch of North Yorkshire rural life.

Long before t ...

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Snilesworth’s Callanish

In a misty embrace of swirling mizzle, this place of intriguing standing stones has been dubbed as "Snilesworth's Callanish," though many know it as Stephen Thwaites, an old medieval farmstead. Its enigmatic air whispers tales of times long past.

The name was coined by Bill Cowley (1916-1994), better known as the founder of the Lyke Wake Walk, in his interesting bookle ...

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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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