This is Gill House Beck on Bycliffe moor in the Yorkshire Dales. Normally this stream is dry, but this is caving country and the water will be flowing underground. When it rains hard, the stream rises and flows towards the clump of trees, where Gill House farmhouse once stood, and sinks into a crack in … Continue reading Bycliffe and Coniston Moor
The Thimble Stones Carving
This is one of the Thimble Stones high on Ilkley moor in West Yorkshire. It is a small rocky outcrop on the very top of the moor, with fantastic views all around. Ilkley moor is known for its prehistoric rock art - mysterious 'cup and ring' markings on some of the rocks. They are thought … Continue reading The Thimble Stones Carving
The Owl Who Flew Away, and Came Back Again!
This little prehistoric carving is named 'Weston moor cr-43', but we have always called it 'The Owl Stone'... because it looks like an Owl...and it is a much nicer name for it. It is about 2 miles away from my house, at the edge of Weston moor and behind a little copse of trees. There … Continue reading The Owl Who Flew Away, and Came Back Again!
Old Paths
I love walking these old paths that are to be found on the moors. Often they end up at an old ruined building. Many are hundreds of years old and some are furrowed from years of farm carts wearing grooves in the hard earth. One of the joys of being outside on the high moors … Continue reading Old Paths
Valley Entrance Duck
I started caving when I was 19, and stopped thirty years ago when I was 40. I caved all over England and Wales and a couple of trips abroad. Apart from a few broken bones: ribs, foot, finger and neck vertebrae I was lucky. Not too much damage sustained, although I had a couple of … Continue reading Valley Entrance Duck
Those Clouds!
Don't you just love dramatic clouds? This is the centuries old track from 'Top Withins' farmhouse on Haworth Moor, to 'Lower Withins', another ruined farmhouse. It is thought that 'Top Withins' may have been in the mind of Emily Bronte when she wrote 'Wuthering Heights', but the farmhouse bares little resemblance to the Earnshaw home … Continue reading Those Clouds!
Millers Grave
Millers Grave This little cairn, on Midgley moor above the mill town of Hebden Bridge is called Millers Grave. It is in an area of standing stones and other cairns, and has an interesting history associated with it. Possibly Bronze Age in origin, although it could be earlier, it is probably a burial cairn. It … Continue reading Millers Grave
Changes
Winter snow in the woods Well some good news at last! Shirley is out of hospital and is back home. She still needs a lot of support but she is getting the help she needs and I am caring for her, the prognosis is excellent. It has been a scary five weeks, but she has … Continue reading Changes
Round Dykes
These photos are of an ancient enclosure on the moors above the little town of Addingham - half an hours drive from where I live. Little now remains except a circular ditch - thought to have been built somewhere between the Late Bronze Age to the Romano-British period (c.1000 BC-AD 400) - although it was … Continue reading Round Dykes
The Dark
I live in a market town in Yorkshire. The town in very old, with references to its existence as far back as 972 A.D. Nowadays it is a smart, forward thinking bustling town with lots of restaurants, artisan craft shops and a market three times a week, held in the lovely old cobbled market square. … Continue reading The Dark
Mountains, Myths and Moorlands 
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