10th September 2015 - Gunnerside, Heights, Barf End, Brownsey House, round Brownsey Moor to end of Ash Pot Gutter, Level House Bridge, West to High Gorton, down Gunnerside Beck (upper part on valley side), Gunnerside - leaders Cath & Malcolm Mackay
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| Literary Institute - now Village Hall at Gunnerside |
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| The Old working Smithy with museum alongside |
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| West end of Swaledale (and Gunnerside houses) behind |
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| Lane Foot house ruins in next picture |
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| flowers actually about half size shown |
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| Barf End Gate? |
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| barn before Brownsey House? |
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| inside Brownsey House? |
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| Brownsey House & barn behind |
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| around Brownsey Moor |
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| shooting butts |
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| looking for paths shown on maps but not on ground? |
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| very long inclined flue up hillside from smelting mills - but which mill? |
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| remains of a structure - but what was it? - found later on
Google search: The smelt mill at Old Gang was built in the
early years of the 19th century. A huge open-sided peat house,
reputed to hold three years’ worth of fuel was built nearby. It
is around 119 metres long and 6.4 metres wide separated into 3
bays by two internal stone partition walls. It has stone gables
and side walls formed from 36 individual stone piers. It once
had a pitched roof extending the length of the structure
supported on timber trusses. A trackway leads down to the peat
store from the hillside where the peat was cut. A second
trackway leads from the peat store to the smelt mill. |
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| remains of chimney at top of (a shorter) sloping flue from old Gang Smelting Mills? - but not the long sloping flue seen earlier? |
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| another view of peat store structure |
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| Old Gang Smelting Mills? - remains of chimney at top of sloping flue just visible to left. |
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| returning from a day of grouse shooting |
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| Level House Bridge |
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| apparently a stone crusher? made in Leeds but not obvious how it worked |
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| which way to take to get into Gunnerside Beck? |
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| a Stoat waiting for me to disappear so it can get to two dead rabbits on the path (probably killed by it) - bodies not shown here. |
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| Note on Woodland Regeneration but unfortunately no earlier 'notes' on mining structures - any detailed map & booklet available on mining in Gunnerside Beck? |
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| Gunnerside Church |
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| back of Ghyllfoot Tea Room & Bistro seen from path leading into Gunnerside |
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| refreshments in Ghyllfoot garden |
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| leaving Ghyllfoot Tea Room |
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| relaxing at dinner after interesting week of walk in the Yorkshire Dales (without the distraction of a certain politician's 'jokes') |
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