Pictures from a long weekend in the market town of Pickering at the beginning of April.
Cosy looking pub in the tiny village of Lastingham.
St Mary’s, Lastingham and (R) its Norman crypt. The church was built on the site of an Anglo-Saxon monastery founded in the 7th C by Cedd.
Farndale is famous for its show of wild daffodils, distinguishable from cultivated daffodils by their short stems.
St Mary’s Farndale.
The picturesque village of Hutton-le-Hole.
Pictures from the Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole.
(L) Pickering station is the southern terminus of the North York Moors railway. (R) Splendid tiled map dating from ~1910 showing the railways in North-East England at about the peak of their coverage.
Walking up from the remote stop of Newtondale Halt.
The Hole of Horcum is an odd-looking depression, forming a wide amphitheatre.
Towards the end 0f the walk at the village of Levisham, before walking down to the Levisham railway station.
The ruins of Pickering Castle.
A couple of pictures (in rather grey weather) of the former Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx.