Author name: Richard Clarke

A single blog off our current theme – Dewponds. On the recent walk in the south-west Yorkshire Wolds came across this man-made dewpond (see above and yesterday’s photo), although now much overgrown. The purpose of a dewpond was to provide a water supply for grazing animals by harnessing natural processes. This dewpond was formed by […]

(Continuing the route of the Hull and Barnsley Railway from previous blog). The route of the rail-track cutting through the southern part of Skidby parish was also not adopted as a public right of way, this cutting becoming more shallow as the route reaches the lower dip-slope of the Yorkshire Wolds. At Albion Mill, now

A classic example of opportunity lost in terms of our title is the route of the Hull and Barnsley rail-line through the Yorkshire Wolds and parts of west Hull and west Hull suburbs. Although sections of the line across the Vale of York have been adopted as public rights of way most of the route

Just a one blog break from ‘Disused rail-lines as public rights of way’. Started at Drewton just east of the A1034 South Cave to Market Weighton road. Walked up past the working limestone quarry  and then turned left down Comber Dale (see photo above, view north from top of Comber Dale) this part of the

Incidentally, on crossing the minor road to Goodmanham (s.p.b.) the Hudson Way and the Yorkshire Wolds Way (long distance footpath) cross, the latter going broadly south-north. On passing a post-war housing estate on the north side of Market Weighton the end of the Hudson Way is a large, grassed open area with playground, this once

A tributary rail-line from the Hudson Way passed through Goodmanham parish, part of it being a public right of way. The parish of Goodmanham is a significant historic area with its church dedicated to All Saints now being Grade 1 listed by Historic England and, in places the parish boundary following prehistoric earthworks. It figures