6/26 North Yorkshire Moors - Way Too Many Photos!

I apologize for posting so many photos, but I love this area where my maternal grandmother's maternal grandmother's family came from.  I first visited her briefly in 2018 and found the church they were married in, and then returned in 2022 to stay in a cottage at the farm where my gg-grandfather lived and worked when they were married, and before they migrated to Canada the year later.  They and several of their relatives left many generations when they left this area, but they were very poor and had no future here.  I'm sure they missed the beauty of this area and encourage people to visit here if they are ever in England.  

Here are some photos taken in the order I took them and over several days.  Let me know if you agree with this area being beautiful!  

Also, I apologize for my rental car dashboard being in so many of the photos, but there are very few places on the moors where there are places to pull over and get out, and absolutely never any roadway shoulders!  In addition, the view screen on my camera is broken, so I had to use the viewfinder or just guess what was in the scene I shot.  I did delete a lot of the really bad photos, at least.  

There are a couple of major roadways through the moors that are two-lane and have a white line through the middle, and this is one of them.  I liked the long view here.  Notice that the grass has been shorn very short along the edges of the road, but that is due to the sheep liking the tender grass that grows there.  

 

 

Most of what is considered the moors is privately owned farms, so this is a good example of a single-lane road going past some fields that are enclosed with stone walls.  

 

 

The Yorkshire Moors National Park visitor center is along this road, above. 

 

 

You can see a lot of enclosed farm fields in the next couple of photos. 

 

 

One of the road hazards who are really supposed to be in walled fields or in the moors.   

 

 

Eventually, the moved off to the edge of the road, and I was able to pass them.  

The edge of a small village. 

 

 

More long views. 

Entering the town of Castleton, where you can get groceries and find a couple of tiny hotels and pubs. 

 

 

I'll write more about driving and parking soon, but notice that this is a two-way, two-lane street, but parked cars take up some of the roadway.  This means if you want to go through and another car is coming from the opposite direction, one of you will have to find a place to pull over slightly so the other car can pass. Surprisingly, it works out fairly well, but there is always very little space to get through, which makes driving very stressful.   

 

 

This is a pub with hotel rooms above located in the tiny village of Danby.  I stayed here for a couple of days in 2018.   

 

 

I was told lambs were born very early this year, even as early as January and February, so this pair are bigger than they normally are in June.   And Mom is ready to be sheared. 

 

 

Some heather on the moors.   

 

 

Most of the time, I was driving in the afternoon, and a lot of sheep were resting from a morning of heavy eating.   The red paint on its back identifies its owner.  

A lot of the farms and towns are located in valleys, I assume because it is warmer and less windy there.