Mastodawn

Who Was Mitchell Atkinson?

Most of you know I am no admirer of memorials. Benches, plaques and carved rocks scatter the moors like litter. Yet this one is somewhat different, as if justified by age. Hidden off the main paths above Greenhow Botton since 1972, I had no idea it existed until I came across it, a few years ago now. At first sight I thought it a just shooting butt, but the ...