The village of Osmotherley lies on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, at the point where the rugged Cleveland Hills meet the more gentle, rolling Hambleton Hills. This is an area with a history that stretches back to the early days of human exploration and settlement. A history that has left it's mark right up to the present time. Here the walker is presented with a mixture of landscapes to explore. The rugged, heather moorland, the rolling grassland of the lower hills, and the forests of conifer and broad-leaved trees that line the edges of the moors. Join the author on a series of walks as he explores both the landscape and the history of this part of one of the country's most popular national parks.
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Illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (colour)
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
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978-1-905444-56-4 (9781905444564)
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Keven Shevels Kev has been involved with outdoor sports since his school days when participation in the Duke of Edinburgh award revealed the beauties of hill and dale and resulted in him walking or running through the countryside of the North East and beyond for most of the last forty years. Many of these trips into the great outdoors being visits to the heather-clad uplands of the North York Moors, an area for which he has developed a great fondness. Over the last six years, Kev has put pen to paper describing routes through the North Pennines that reveal his passion for both the countryside and the history that has shaped it and the people who live upon it. That, coupled with an in-built curiosity to go and view things that spark his interest, tend to result in routes that take the reader into new, undiscovered areas and reveal a history that may not be apparent from the outside. He is not ashamed to admit that he is one of these boring people who can sit and spend hours reading a map like more normal people read a book. His great delight is coming up with new routes that he can subsequently explore and investigate. All of this has resulted in an easy to read, informative style of guidebook that has proved very popular among the walking fraternity and received very favourable reviews in both local and national press. Now Kev returns to one of his favourite areas, the North York Moors, and in this, the first in a number of books that he is planning on the Moors, he explores the area surrounding Osmotherley which stands at the point where the Cleveland Hills meets the Hambleton Hills.
Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Access & the Right to Roam 3. The Walks 4. The Weather 5. The Maps 6. Facilities, Tourist Information Centres & Websites The Hambleton Drove Road Walk 1: Mount Grace Priory Mount Grace Priory Walk 2: The Stones of Thimbleby Moor Rock Art on Thimbleby Moor Nine Stones Walk 3: Arnsgill and Cow Ridge Iron Howe Settlement Walk 4: Lady's Chapel & Hambleton Drove Road Lady's Chapel Starfish SF10C Walk 5: Thimbleby Bank and Silton Forest Walk 6: Above the Cod Beck Walk 7: Miley Pike and Holy Well Gill Walk 8: A Circuit of Black Hambleton Low Locker Moor Settlement Walk 9: A Stroll Over to Thorodale Steeple Cross Dyke Kepwick Long Barrow Round Barrows Appendix Ferguson Grading System The Author Walking North East Acknowledgements Disclaimer
