Robin Hood's Bay

View from the old railway track, now a cinder path for walkers.

Ancient Monk's Track

From Helmsley to Rievaulx Abbey:

Dykes End

Beach all to ourselves, everyone else had gone - not a surprise really, given the cold wind from the sea, direct from the North Pole by the feel of it.

Rosedale

Quiet today, but a thriving iron mining industry was here between 1855 and 1926. How different it would have been then: some scars remain, not able to be reclaimed by nature.

Broxa Forest

On the North Yorkshire moors.






Early purple orchid


Wood ants nest, not to be sat on!

Early Warning

Early warning station of the cold war era, built overlooking the North Sea on the clifftop of the Flamborough headland. The vertical concrete pillars are part of a radar system pointing east and there is also a substantial subterranean network of tunnels and rooms - all now defunct and sealed up.

Iron Age Earthwork

Iron age earthwork on the North Yorkshire wolds, looking down into Thixendale. Dry valleys and chalk grassland kept from returning to scrub by grazing sheep, as it has been for centuries.

Saxon Church 2

St. Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire. Built 11 years before the Norman conquest. Still has the original 1,000 year old sundial above the door. A quiet and peaceful location in a hidden dale.

Ravenscar

Robin Hood's Bay from Ravenscar, on the north Yorkshire coast.