Ticksey How

The Smeathorns Road across the moor to Castleton. I have ridden it more times than I can count, and today I nearly missed it again.

A boundary stone. Right there, behind the stock fence.

Weathered sandstone, inscribed “S Ticksey how” — marking the old boundary between the parishes of Stanghow and Moorsholm. The wire mesh and barbed wire arrived a c ...

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