Category Archives: Ghosts

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 →

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Black Gold, Tan Hill Tea

Posted on September 17, 2014 by

THERE was a loose plan fluttering about this morning like a threadbare flag above a roadside burger bar. But the wind changed and the plan got blown across fields and was last seen snagged on a fence alongside a ragged … Continue reading →

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Cross Fell ??? Fiends, Rivers, Paths and Poets

Posted on May 23, 2014 by

A walk up Cross Fell and down the Tees and Tyne . . . Continue reading →

Posted in Climbing, Environment, Footpaths, Ghosts, Hiking, History, Legends, Life, Mountains, Pennine Way, Poetry, Railway goods wagons, Railways, Religion, Rivers, Teesdale, Teesside, Tyneside, Walking | Tagged , , , , , | 24 Comments

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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Causey Pike ??? A Country For Old Men?

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

NEAR the summit of Causey Pike, where the heathery track gives way to steep rock, an elderly man sits on a boulder. He???s wearing a wide-brimmed hat and his white hair wisps about his ears. I get the impression he???s … Continue reading →

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South of the Border, Down Cheviot Way

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

A walk along the boggy border between Scotland and England . . . Continue reading →

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