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The Yorkshire Moors may not be one of the best known national parks, but the area includes some breathtakingly beautiful scenery, including vast expanses of open moorland, dramatic sea cliffs, sudden escarpments and hidden valleys.
This site is going to be my personal guide to the Moors, based on nineteen years of walking in the national park. We will be building up a collection of suggested walks (forty nine at the moment), complete with maps and easy to follow instructions, each based on my own walks over the last few years, and illustrated by some of the thousands of photos I've taken on the moors.
The heart of the site is going to be the gazetteer,
which we hope to develop into a complete guide to the Moors, supported by a series of maps created for this site.
Gazatteer entries will be created as I visit the Moors, and expanded as more infomation is found, so keep coming back.
We also hope to create a series of articles about the wildlife and history of the moors.
If you have any questions, then get in touch using our contact form and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Most recent addition: 26 June 2010: Rosedale is one of the largest and most impressive valleys in the North York Moors, and the only one of the central dales (Rosedale, Farndale, Bransdale and Bilsdale) to contain a sizable village, Rosedale Abbey
At the end of July 2006 I walked Hadrian's Wall for the Perthes Disease Association.
Click on the map below to go to more detailed maps of the Moors, linked to our gazatteer.
9 May 2010: We follow our walk with an article on Mount Grace Priory
11 April 2010: Our new walk is unusual in that it requires access to Mount Grace Priory, a National Trust property, so it is best suited to NT members or someone who is planning to visit the priory anyway
20 February 2010: Joseph Foord (1714-1788) was a farmer, surveyor and engineer, born in Fadmoor on the Tabular Hills, and who is best known for constructing a series of water races that brought fresh water into a series of dry villages on the limestone hills.
6 February 2010: This week we add an article and picture gallery for Roseberry Topping
9 January 2010: We start 2010 with articles on West Ayton and East Ayton and a map of the two villages in 1914
13 December 2009: Today we add a second walk from the Forge Valley, this time heading north to the Derwent Sea Cut
21 November 2009: This week we add a walk in the Forge Valley
1 November 2009: To support our article on the Pheasant we add new pictures to our Wildlife Gallery.
3 October 2009: The Common Pheasant is one of the most easily recognised of all British game birds, often seen as a visitor to domestic gardens, and is common on the North York Moors
5 September 2009: This week we add maps of Cowesby, Felixkirk, Kirby Knowle and Old Byland in 1914.
23 August 2009: Our next walk takes us up Black Hambleton
18 July 2009: Our next walk takes us from Rosedale into Hartoft and then up onto the high moors.
27 June: We add 1914 maps for Egton, Egton Bridge, Goathland and Whitby,
30 May 2009: We add an article on the quiet valley of Hartoft
9 May 2009: Our latest walk takes us from Ampleforth to Wass and Studfold Ring
19 April 2009: We open a picture gallery for Ryedale
28 March: This week we continue our series on the rivers of the Moors with the River Derwent
14 March 2009: We start a series of articles on the Rivers of the Moors with a look at the Seph and the Leven.
21 February 2009: This week we add maps of Kirkbymoorside, Helmsley, Pockley Fadmoor and Carlton in 1914.
7 February: This week we add Easby, Keldholme, Lingdale and Liverton
24 January: Today we add articles on Aislaby nr Whitby, Allerston, Bagby, Boosbeck and Briggswath.
9 January 2009: We start 2009 with a gallery of pictures of furniture from Robert Thompson's Craftsmen at Kilburn
Copyright John Rickard, 2005-2009