Yorkshire

Two Million Snowdrops at Ripley

February 14, 2011

Just a quick Yorkshire item today. I have happy memories of Ripley Castle, including taking my young granddaughter to the Ripley Show several years ago.  Well this year’s show isn’t until August but there’s plenty to do and see in the interim.  At present I’m told that there are something like two million snowdrops in [...]

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Where is England’s Longest Single-Drop Waterfall?

February 13, 2011

It was described by the poet William Wordsworth in a 1799 letter to his friend Coleridge.  He writes of a bitterly cold December day. “After cautiously sounding our way over stones of all colours and sizes, encased in the clearest water formed by the spray of the fall we found the rock, which had before [...]

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The Yorkshire Coast at Bridlington

February 5, 2011

I haven’t written here for a few days but while sorting through some photos I came across this one that I took while on a few days’ break in Bridlington last April. All too often the northern counties of England are portrayed as full of smoke-blackened mills and abandoned coal mines, but this is far [...]

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Roads and Trackways of The Yorkshire Dales

January 12, 2011

Last night, while scanning my shelves, I came across a book that I must have bought around twenty years ago, Roads and Trackways of The Yorkshire Dales, by Geoffrey N. Wright. I couldn’t recall reading it before so spent an hour or so, with everything except eyes under the duvet, reading the first few chapters. [...]

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Yorkshire Dales Update – 2010:02

January 26, 2010

Image by freefotouk via Flickr Today I have a Yorkshire Dales miscellany gathered from around the blogosphere, items that have caught my attention and that I hope will interest you. They cover quite a wide range of topics, from archaeology and photography to the re-establishment of an ancient job. It would be nice also if [...]

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The Yorkshire Dales – Update 2010:01

January 14, 2010

Janet’s Foss, near Malham – Image via Wikipedia With the beginning of 2010 not only am I expanding the blog to cover a wider area of the North of England (see my post about the changes at Around-England 2010) but I’m also starting a series of news updates about different areas of the region which [...]

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