The Man and Maiden Wishing Stones – Filey Brigg

  Filey Brigg is a long and narrow headland extending out into the North Sea at Filey on the Yorkshire east coast.   The headland is almost one mile in length, and forms the north side of Filey Bay. It is comprised of a ridge of high cliffs, which then drop down to a bed rock […]

Gormire lake – ‘A wild and bottomless tarn’

“As we descended the hill there was no distinct view, but of a great space; only near us we saw the wild (and as the people say) bottomless tarn in the hollow at the side of the hill. It seemed to be made visible to us only by its own light, for all the hill […]