The Devil’s Stride – Roulston Scar
“Ye see, as our foore olders hev alous sed,the giants yance wer maisters of all this hill country” A previous post peered into the Devil’s Parlour Cave near Sutton Bank, 5 miles east of Thirsk. The cave is located in the rock face below Roulston Scar – an exposed section of high cliffs on […]
The Hell Hole Rock – Crosper
Crosper is located three miles to the south east of Harrogate. The Crosper place name survives today as Crosper Farm, on the road between Harrogate and the village of Spofforth. Crosper is thought to mean ‘cross hill’, perhaps from a cross having stood there in the past, although no cross exists today. In […]
The lost Rocking stone of Thornthwaite
Thornthwaite township is a scattered community spread along the Padside Beck valley, 8 miles to the west of Harrogate. The first edition OS map (1854) marks a Rocking Stone at Rowantree Crags on the high ground to the south west of Thornthwaite. The Rocking Stone does not appear on later edition maps, which […]
The Hood Hill Altar Stone – Sutton Bank
The ‘Altar’ was a large block of stone located on top of Hood Hill near Sutton Bank, 5 miles to the east of Thirsk. Hood Hill is a prominent outlying hill separated off from the main Hambleton Hills escarpment. Up until the 1950’s a large block of stone (known locally as The Altar) […]
T’ Hob o’ Tarn Hole – Bilsdale
Tarn Hole is a large wooded valley on the edge of East Bilsdale Moor, two miles to the south-east of Chop Gate on the North York Moors. (As pointed out in the Buckingham Stone post last year, Tarn Hole is privately owned land, and not part of the open access area just to the […]
Fairy Bank – Fell Beck
The Fairy Bank is a section of the Fell Beck stream valley, located two miles to east of Pateley Bridge in the Yorkshire Dales. Like the Fairy Table at Kilburn, the only record of this fairy site appears to be on the first edition OS map (1854). The name was noted down several […]
The Fairy Table – Kilburn
“Where mighty masses of stone stare down,there they have their Fairy houses.There they eat at the Fairy Table.” The Fairy Table is a rock outcrop located on a wooded hillside, one mile to the north-east of Kilburn village on the edge of the North York Moors. The outcrop is marked on the first edition OS […]
The Devil’s Parlour Cave – Roulston Scar
The Devil’s Parlour cave is located in the cliff face at Roulston Scar, half a mile to the south of Sutton Bank, and 5 miles east of Thirsk. The cave takes the form of a tall but narrow fissure in the rock face at the base of the cliffs. The passage is not much more […]
The waters return to Trollers Gill
Previous visits to Trollers Gill noted the curious sight of a flowing stream disappearing underground half way down the ravine, only to re-emerge in the empty stream bed to the south of the gorge. For much of year the stream bed in the gorge forms a rocky path used by walkers trekking up […]
The Arnecliff Wishing stone – Glaisdale
Arnecliff Woods are located half a mile to the east of Glaisdale village, on the North York Moors. A footbridge across the river Esk leads to a woodland path which runs alongside the river, before winding its way up the hillside through the wood. After 500m or so the path passes a large split boulder, […]