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Pictures of the North York Moors - ROSEDALE (re-edit 11/09/2022) Lastingham, Rosedale, Farndale, Hutton-le-Hole, Bransdale INDEX The 'Hanging Stones' art project in Northdale by Andy Goldsworthy See also 1. Lastingham, St Mary's Church 3. Hutton-le-Hole, Village and Ryedale Folk Museum 10. A circular walk from Hutton-le-Hole to Gillamoor and Douthwaite Dale
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A circular walk from Lastingham via
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Part 1 General Views of Rosedale
Looking north-west from Rosedale Abbey along one of the many tracks through the valley of Rosedale. A recommended stop if doing the Rosedale Circuit walk. Drop down from the old railway track to the DALE HEAD FARM TEA ROOM
Dale Head Farm Tea Garden for a nice 'cafe' stop - great location and great refreshment - the cakes !!!! There is a self-service facility in the winter.
Tranquil scene in the central part of Rosedale.
Looking north up Rosedale from one of the many footpaths that traverse it.
Looking north towards the head of Rosedale.
Rosedale in a nutshell !
Sheep picking from the patches of grass between the heather and bracken - its a hard life for them.
Moody Rosedale!
Winter in Rosedale.
A third of the way down the picture you can see the outline of the embankment on which the track of the ironstone railway once lay.
Typical landscape scene in Rosedale
View of Rosedale from half-way up the Rosedale Chimney Road to Bank Top - telephoto shot below
View north-east across Rosedale from the old railway track.
Part 2 Rosedale Abbey Village
Rosedale Abbey quietly welcomes you.
Some typical stone cottages and houses in Rosedale Abbey
Once the Milburn Arms, future?
Graze on the Green Tearoom & Tea Garden in Rosedale Abbey village
Abbey Stores and Tearoom in Rosedale Abbey village
The village green in Rosedale Abbey
The Coach House Inn pub and restaurant in Rosedale Abbey village
Just behind the 'green' in Rosedale Abbey village is an interesting garden containing a variety of sculptures in a most pleasant setting by the stream.
The graveyard of Rosedale Abbey church.
On the left is St Lawrence's Church. On the right, in front of the county primary school, built in 1822, is the remains of a turret staircase from the old Abbey (actually a Nun's Priory), the school is built of stone from the abbey. The turret staircase is all that is left of the great medieval abbey-priory! Rosedale Abbey was a Cistercian nunnery, founded in 1158.
Don't forget to call in at St Lawrence's Church, Rosedale Abbey with traces of its medieval origins still visible. PLEASE leave a donation, even if its just buying the excellent little guide sheet to the church and help maintain this ancient and still working church. This was built as the Parish Church of St Mary and St Lawrence on the foundations of the priory chapel. However, the medieval church or priory chapel, was pulled down in 1839 and a larger church built on the same site.
An old stone seat from the medieval abbey (the 'bishop's chair') and the east stained glass window.
? on the side of the church.
Glass blowing at the glass workshop of Gillies Jones from Rosedale Glass, Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire, England
Examples of the stunning glass works of Gillies Jones from Rosedale Glass, Rosedale Abbey, North Yorkshire, England
Part 3. More pictures of the environs of Rosedale Abbey and walking up into Rosedale itself
Ex miners cottages off Daleside Road (eastern side of Rosedale). Hill Houses?
The Orange Tree offers extra spiritual comfort in addition to that provided by the beauty and ambiance of Rosedale!
The ivy clad Hillyard Cottage has lovely views up Rosedale.
The view north-west up Rosedale from near Craven Garth Farm which has holiday cottages attached to it.
Hill Cottages below Swine Stye Hill on Daleside Road.
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Thorgill is a very quiet little hamlet.
Views across to the other side of Rosedale from Thorgill.
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The old kilns from the days of ironstone mining.
There is a good track heads all the way along Rosedale before climbing up to Blakey.
This is also called Daleside Road - the western version!
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Tranquil autumn in Rosedale
Eventually a bit of hard work has to be done ...
... to reach the Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge. The reclusive Northdale, a branch off the main valley of Rosedale Northdale (North Dale) is a northern section branching of Rosedale itself (which runs north-west from Rosedale Abbey) and is most readily accessed from the road (the section called Knott Road) down to Rosedale Abbey from the junction at Ralph's Cross on the Castleton to Hutton-le-Hole road.
Looking north-east, a view of the northern part of North Dale, Northdale Rigg in distant right of the picture. There are some pleasant tracks to explore in this part of Rosedale. In the foreground is the banks of an old reservoir, still full of water, from some past industrial use. On the right is the spread of buildings of Northdale Farm.
There are spoil heaps and signs of industrial excavation by the side of Knott Road - from ironstone mining?
Looking north-east towards Broom Hill, Northdale Head House and beyond to West Northdale Farm, Rosedale.
Looking south-east across North Dale, Rosedale.
You can walk around and through North Dale and end up by the War Memorial above Rosedale Abbey with great views of Rosedale itself.
The countryside of Rosedale to the west of North Dale, shot from the road up to Ralph's Cross, about half-way up you can start the walk into North Dale (which is out of sight to the right of these scenes).
The Northdale art trail near Rosedale - The 'Hanging Stones' project by Andy Goldsworthy
(1) is the 'FIREPLACE' art installation, (2) is the 'RED HOUSE' installation
The 'art installation' known as the Red House, Northdale, near Rosedale by Andy Goldsworthy
Northdale Head House, on the left is the 'Red House'.
The 'Fireplace' is quite atmospheric in the 'dark' weather.
The interior of the 'Fireplace' house.
Some kind of stone wall construction near Northdale Farm, purpose?, just as good as Andy Goldsworthy's work?
The White Horse Farm Hotel has been recently refurbished, with great views across the car park, the White Horse was always one of our favourite 'moorland' pubs.
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Views of Rosedale, North York Moors Lastingham, Rosedale, Farndale, Hutton-le-Hole, Bransdale INDEX A spot of Industrial Archaeology
At one time, the much sought after ironstone! These pictures illustrate Route 3 "Rosedale's Mineral Railway" from "Ten Scenic Walks around Rosedale, Farndale and Hutton-le-Hole" by J. Brian Beadle or the "Upper Rosedale" walk from "Walking on the North York Moors" compiled by the Ramblers Association but starting from the car park near Blakey Ridge (12 miles). The pictures were mainly taken on glorious winter days and very grey winter days! In 1861 a railway was constructed from Battersby Junction below the Moors in the east and came east right across to the east side Rosedale by 1865. However as the ironstone ran out the line closed in 1929, but there is considerable industrial archaeological evidence for its existence.
The walk start car park is on the right of the picture (two cars in sight), on the left of the road just beyond the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge in the Hutton-le-Hole direction. Rosedale is on the left (Farndale is out of sight on the right).
The remains of the railway bridge at Blakey and the track bed heading west above Farndale.
Only works for ghost trains these days over the wild moorland!
A cold late Autumn day on the old mineral railway track above Rosedale
Across the middle of the picture you can just make out where the railway track ran.
Just down on the left from the Blakey Ridge car park is one lone piece of brickwork from a building that once stood by the railway track.
It has been painted a garish pink!!! Blakey Ridge up on the left.
Sheep grazing by the old kilns on the Rosedale Circuit Walk.
The old kilns provide shelter for sheep.
Rather more plain to see on closer inspection!
Sheep and building ruins in the industrial archaeological landscape.
One of many sections of embankments.
The upper and lower levels railway track beds.
The walls of the giant kilns (ovens) used to roast the ore before transportation to the iron furnaces of Teesside and Middlesbrough by railway.
The stones of the kiln walls are red from the furnace chemistry. You can see the bed of the lower railway track at their foot.
Looking back north along the bed of the old mineral railway line you can climb up above the great iron-ore roasting kilns.
From the top of the south-east kilns you can see the upper and lower railway embankments on the east side of Rosedale.
Last shot of the kilns.
The ghostly remains of the mining buildings, like some ruinous medieval castle!, before heading along on the old railway 'path' round to Blakey Ridge and perhaps call in at the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge, a pub that goes back to the 16th century.
Once an entrance arch to one of the mine tunnel and galleries
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You can include the kilns-furnaces on a circular walk from Rosedale Abbey village and half-way round you can call at the Dale Head Farm tea garden for refreshments e.g. drinks and snacks - Yorkshire cakes teas and coffees. You can descend to from the old railway track on the north side of Rosedale.
The only waterfall I know in Rosedale! On ??? Lane
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A disused airshaft.
The ruinous remnants of mining buildings and loading staithes (loading bays) above Hill Cottages on the south-east side of Rosedale.
This ends the section east side of Rosedale. You ascend the road up out of Rosedale Abbey to pick up the railway track to return to Blakey Ridge car park.
Near Rosedale Bank Top are the remains of the kilns (picture below) that roasted iron ore to drive off water and carbon dioxide gas to concentrate the iron-ore before transportation to the Teesside-Middlesbrough blast furnaces. The remains of the kilns are near the top of the 'Rosedale Chimney', a very steep road up from Rosedale Abbey.
I usually set off on the western side of Rosedale to go round in a clockwise direction and on the way you can see across to the iron-ore kilns (more on these see further up the page).
The old railway track above Rosedale near where few stones and shafts remain from the old ironstone mines.
There are several old mine shafts close to the paths (ex old ironstone railway track) and look down into them - with great care! This one is from Sheriff's Pit (see more pictures below). These pictures (above and below) are from 2007.
... and more ruins of old mining buildings stand lonely and forlorn, again like the remains of a devastated medieval castle!
More recent pictures of the disused Sheriff's Pit (March 2011), the deep shaft is well fenced off (on the far right), and no wonder. Sheriff's Pit was a drift mine but the ironstone ore was lifted to the surface up this shaft, which is close to the west side railway line when it would have been taken to the calcing ovens at Rosedale Chimney Bank Top.
To the east of Sheriff's Pit, is a 'Pile of Stones' (marked on OS map at 703963) and further west down in Rosedale itself is the small hamlet of Thorgill which would have been a place the Rosedale ironstone miners lived in.
There is a 'memorial' to the miners of Rosedale.
The inscriptions on either side of the bench are ...
In the dark, working hard, loading up the wooden cart,
Work-shift over, in the sun, on the hill, having fun. An appropriate way to end this page - a homage to all miners
Lastingham, Rosedale, Farndale, Hutton-le-Hole
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