Category Archives: Death

A Christmas Walk: With Ghosts on Baysdale Moor

Posted on December 16, 2014 by

I AM wary of the North York Moors because they are more than a little bit sinister. They are wild and empty, peppered with the scratchings of forgotten people, laced with legends, and punctuated with the stumps of ancient crosses … Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, Captain James Cook, Cleveland Way, Death, Environment, Footpaths, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Hunting, Industrial archaeology, Legends, Mountains, Politics, Ranting, Ruins, Teesside, Walking, Weather | Tagged , , , , | 39 Comments

A Cook’s Tour of the Cleveland Hills

Posted on October 22, 2014 by

CAPTAIN James Cook is one of Britain’s most celebrated maritime heroes. Born to lowly farming folk in the Teesside village of Marton, his destiny lay not in farming ??? or shopkeeping, to which he was briefly apprenticed ??? but as … Continue reading →

Posted in Camping, Captain James Cook, Cleveland Way, Climbing, Death, Footpaths, Hiking, History, Mountains, Railway goods wagons, Railways, Teesside, Vikings, Walking, Weather | Tagged , , , , | 32 Comments

Old Roads, a Fallen Lady, St Jude and Thoughts for the Day

Posted on May 9, 2014 by

A walk through the lead mines of the North Pennines . . . Continue reading →

Posted in Archaeology, Death, Environment, Footpaths, Hiking, History, Industrial archaeology, Life, Mountains, Religion, Rivers, Ruins, Teesdale, Teesside, Walking, Weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 28 Comments

Untold Stories of High Haciendas

Posted on December 10, 2013 by

THE mountains are full of places where people lived, raised families and died. Their children and their children???s children have moved on. All that remains are stones and walls and the imagined echoes of humanity . . .

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A Pennine Trek, Part 3 ??? Hell and High Walking

Posted on September 20, 2013 by

The concluding episode of McEff’s Pennine walk . . . Continue reading →

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A Pennine Trek, Part 2 ??? A Night Beneath Hangman Hill

Posted on September 16, 2013 by

McEff continues his backpacking trip to Hexham . . . Continue reading →

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Starry, Starry Night

Posted on September 4, 2013 by

IT???S turned midnight and stars are burning. There???s a smell of autumn in the grass and draughts stir the flysheet. The summer isn???t quite dead but it???s fading. In the deep shades of night, lying still as a stone in … Continue reading →

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