Turbary stones
Holme Moss conjures up different images for people: for some it’s an iconic bike ride climb; for others a treacherous moorland road where to venture …
Month: April 2015
Milestones around Thirsk
On a number of roads in the vicinity of Thirsk in North Yorkshire are some series of milestones that are all very similar in design, …
Northern Spring Meeting, April 2015
There seemed to be more cakes than ever to greet the goodly number of milestoners who assembled on a cold but generally sunny day at …
Some hands on guide-stoops
The skills of those who carved guide-stoops varied enormously, as these pictures show. Not a standard guide-stoop, this classical structure of 1805, recently …
The Maythorn Way
W B Crump, in his Huddersfield highways down the ages (1949), describes the route of an ancient track leading from Marsden to Penistone, by way …