Mick Garratt1d ago

Phase 2 of Roseberry’s Facelift Begins

Last week, the powers that be helicoptered huge black bags of stone and gravel onto the south flank of Roseberry Topping, ready for this year’s phase of its major path upgrading. I have been anxious to see the progress.

To the left of the leftmost foxglove, the bridleway, after climbing up from the Folly field, cont ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/06/15/phase-2-of-roseberrys-facelift-begins/

#NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #AccessRights

MartynMay 29

Hole of Horcum - a vast moorland hollow formed by the force of glacial meltwater

#FootpathFriday

#NorthYorkMoors #Yorkshire #Walking

MartynMay 21
Low Horcum Farm, Hole of Horcum. It was abandoned in 1966. #NorthYorkMoors #Yorkshire #vernaculararchitecture
MartynMay 19
Medieval North York Moors crofters cottage at Ryedale Folk Museum #history #vernaculararchitecture #ruralhomes #NorthYorkMoors #Yorkshire #Medieval
MartynMay 19
A thatched 19th century cottage from the North York Moors at Ryedale Folk Museum #vernaculararchitecture #ruralhomes #history #NorthYorkMoors #RyedaleFolkMuseum
MartynMay 19
Relocated medieval longhouse at the Ryedale Folk Museum. It underwent extensive refurbishment in the early 1700s #vernaculararchitecture #ruralhomes #medieval #NorthYorkMoors #RyedaleFolkMuseum #Yorkshire #history
MartynMay 19
A witch post by the fireplace in the Stang End longhouse, that stood for 500 years in Danby before being relocated to the Ryedale Folk Museum in the 1960s. Witch posts were believed to keep evil away #folklore #folkbeliefs #medieval #Yorkshire #history #northyorkmoors
CBC Top StoriesMay 18
#TheMoment A dog was rescued from a 6-metre crevice
Rescuer Roger Hartley tells The National about the moment he and about 20 others helped rescue a Labrador cross that was stuck down a six-metre crevice in North York Moors National Park, England.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7203111?cmp=rss
Mick GarrattMay 17

A Morning on Newton Moor

Word had reached me that this nineteenth-century boundary stone, marking the old parish line between Hutton Lowcross and Newton, had fallen over. It has not been broken, nor properly buried — just balanced upright and packed around with a few small stones. Frankly, it is rather remarkable that it stood for over 200 ye ...

https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/05/17/a-morning-on-newton-moor/

#HuttonMoor #NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #19thcentury #history #NationalTrust

MartynMay 17

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