The timing of the visit of our friend Eleanor with the monthly, summer only, cake and refreshments at St Nicholas Church was perfect. So was the weather. We started there and then headed off on a 7km circular walk. We soon came across Bransdale Bunk House, which can be rented from the National Trust, it […]
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It’s Farndale that I visit most frequently but yesterday I decided that I’d do the loop around to Bransdale – perhaps the most remote of the local dales and specifically to visit the small church at Cockayne – the tiny hamlet at the head of the Dale. I didn’t realise until I started seeing buildings
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I’m starting to develop a project about Ryedale’s villages with a view to something, I’m not quite sure what, culminating in a year – in other words, a year in the life of these villages. It’s a great excuse to seek out places, though close by, I’ve never been to. I had an hour free
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Farndale is a valley within the North York Moors and is surrounded by some of the wildest moorland in England. The dale is sandwiched between Bransdale to the west, Rosedale to the east and Westerdale to the north. To the north-east sits Blakey Ridge at over 1,312 feet (400 m) above sea level, and to the north-west, Cockayne Ridge reaching up to 1,490 feet (454 m)
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After being cooped up all day working in my office it was great to get on my bike and do the circular loop from Kirkbymoorside to Gillamoor, then Fadmoor and down Starfitt Lane to the A170 and back home. There were a few people sat at tables on the village green in Gillamoor but I
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