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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 twenty years of walking in the national park. We will be building up a collection of suggested walks (fifty one 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: 4 February 2012: Today we add twelve new pictures to our Wildlife Gallery.
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.
15 January 2012: All Saints' Church, Hawnby, is a 14th century building located on a hill overlooking the River Rye, to the west of the main part of the village.
11 December 2011: St. Nicholas's Church, Roxby, was largely rebuilt in 1818, and has a simple main building, with a square tower at the western end.
20 November 2011: St. Michael's Church, Liverton, is a typical example of the simple Moorland church, originally built in the 12th century, but restored in the late 18th century and again in 1902-3.
23 October 2011: We expand our Churches gallery with pictures of the churches of Ugthrope, Kirkbymoorside, Kildale
24 September: Today we open a gallery of pictures of the Churches of the North York Moors
10 September: This month we collect our pictures of the waterfalls of the North York Moors into a new picture gallery.
14 August 2011: Kilton Castle was a stone castle built on a ridge above Kilton Dale, and that was occupied from at least the twelfth century until the middle of the fourteenth century, when it was inherited by two priests in a row and apparently went out of use.
10 July 2011: Ayton Castle sits on the edge of a plateau just north of the village of West Ayton. It was built in the late 14th century, probably by Sir Ralph Eure, and was a typical Northern tower house.
8 June 2011: Today we post a picture of the pulpit of Rosedale Church, kindly provided by Richard Herman
24 April 2011: Today we open a new picture gallery for Lastingham and add new pictures of Whitby Abbey to the Whitby Gallery.
26 March 2011: The headland at Scarborough is an ideal site for a castle and has been the site of a Norman castle and a Roman fort.
27 February 2011: Today we add a shorter walk that takes us from Osmotherley to Cod Beck Reservoir
9 January 2011: The ruins of Whorlton Castle sit on a small hill to the west of the abandoned village of Whorlton, in a dramatic location at the entrance to Scugdale, and overlooking the village of Swainby.
4 December 2010: Skelton Castle was probably a very large fortress, but it was destroyed late in the eighteenth century, and little is known about its original layout
13 November 2010: Very little remains of the castle that gave Castleton its name,
16 October 2010: Today we add our fiftieth walk, around Ladhill Gill from the northern end of Hawnby Hill
18 September 2010: Today we look at three of the waterfalls around Goathland, with instructions on how to reach them.
22 August 2010: Today we add articles on Sigston Castle and Harlsey Castle, two minor late medieval castles on the western edge of the moors.
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
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
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