Such an atmospheric location – the delightfully-named ruins of 'Crackpot Hall' near Keld in Swaledale, North Yorkshire.
Imagine waking up in the morning to this impressive view looking down the valley towards the village of Muker.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was home to the Harker family sheep-farming family.
On a day like this the location seems idyllic, but well off the beaten track, it must have been a challenge getting by, especially once winter arrived.

#england #yorkshire #pennines #pennineway #swaledale #ruins #abandoned #landscape #photography

The grave of Herbert Read, English anarchist art critic and poet:

"Knight. Poet. Anarchist"

He grew up on a farm nearby #kirkdale #gravestones #anarchism #poets #northyorkmoors #Yorkshire

St Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale

An 11th century pre Norman conquest church built on the foundations of an earlier church destroyed during a Viking raid.

The landowner who paid for its rebuilding was himself descended from a Viking settler

#AngloSaxon #churches #medieval #history #northyorkmoors #Yorkshire #vikings

11th century Anglo-Scandinavian sundial at St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale #NorthYorkMoors #Yorkshire #history #churches #medieval

The inscription on the panels reads:

"Orm, son of Gamal, bought St Gregory’s Minster when it was all broken and fallen down and he made it anew from the ground for Christ and the Saints in King Edward’s day and in the days of Earl Tostig"

On the sundial it reads:

"This is the sun marker of the day and at each time"

"Hawarth made me and Brand the priest"

#SilentSunday

Robin Hood's Howl, Kirkdale

(an ancient packhorse trail)

#NorthYorkMoors #Yorkshire #Nature #woods

Ahh a bit late to post this but I’ll be at the Craft & Flea in Wakefield tomorrow!

Come along and say hello if you’re in town!

#wakefield #yorkshire #craftfair #craftandflea

Having spent the week in Yorkshire, I couldn’t resist picking up The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a new landmark edition edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil and published just last week. This edition draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of the 1981 Collected Poems.

The second image here is from a visit to Plath’s grave at the church at Heptonstall, back in September 2020. I still find it hard to believe that she was only 30 when she died, and yet she produced so much incandescent work.

#SylviaPlath #Poetry #Poets #Faber #AmandaGolden #KarenVKukil #Heptonstall #Yorkshire #Bookstodon @bookstodon