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Mowbray Castle - A Folly - North Yorkshire, England.

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The Grotto Temple, Masham, North Yorkshire

Just over the river Ure from the market town of Masham is this unusual rotunda sitting on top of a rustic grotto. It was designed to take advantage of the view over the river to the church and the attractive little town. An engraved stone near the temple tells us that in 1770 ‘Samuel Wrather built this grotto’. Continue reading Untitled

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Greg Smith, 56, bought the building in Grewelthorpe, North Yorkshire, eight years ago.

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Tuesday 27 May 1834

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fine F54° at 8 perfectly quiet last night breakfast at 8 ½ - found fault at being charged ¼ per mile instead of 1/3, as elsewhere, except at Staindrop, which, from inadvertence, I had not noticed there - too dearer bill than at Staindrop - but we had been comfortable - off from the King’s head Masham at 9 ½ and at Hackfall (3 miles) at 10 5 – ¾ hour in the grounds – much spoilt since I saw them 2 years ago, by the Marques of Aislesbury’s wood on the opposite bank of the Ure (river) being cut down - Miss W- disappointed and much tired - brought away 3 cream cheeses the village (Gruelthorpe) [Grewelthorpe] far-famed for them - off again at 11 50 and at Brimham-rocks house at 2 ¼ (ten miles) – bad road, certainly, on the moor, but our horses worse – the old postboy meant to have left the carriage in ¼ mile from the house, locked up, among the heather but I would not let him – on arriving ordered fried eggs and bacon, and with these and our cold roll of veal and bread and ginger beer made a goodish dinner about 3 - and Miss W- then refreshed enough to scramble among the rocks -  with the woman of the house as our guide - only herself and little girl - pays Lord Grantley £10 a yard for the house - and [shew] the rocks, the more interesting, being immediately about the house – e.g. the 3 rocking stones, the Canon rock, the cleft rock, and the more striking cavernous parts - really worth seeing - a sort of chaos said to be scattered over 40 acres of the high heather covered moor from which fine view into the vale below or surrounding basin - all rough sandstone grit - the ‘rock of a very singular shape, which Mr Hargrove supposes to have

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been a rock-idol, or stone consecrated to some principal deity’  (46ft. in circumference) did not seem to me to have been separated from the adjoining rock - it’s general shape is perhaps rather that of a swan’s egg pear, tho’ its sides are broken into 2 or 3 hedges one could pass almost along round the stone - I had fancied it might be phallus-like - but it is not at all - ‘the pedestal on which it rests, is, at the top only 1ft. by 2ft. 7in. the marks of the tool are visible in many places, particularly on the base of the pedestal’ - vide Beauties of England and Wales Yorkshire p. 709-10 this singular scene of natural convulsion may have been used by the Druids but it 931 did not strike me that it was at all the work of their own hand - we saw nothing like circles of stones, and the woman said she did not know of any - In returning retraced a good deal of the way by which we came - passed close by Newby Park Lord Grantley’s - the Brimham woman said he was a very fine gentleman but laid heavy rents on his tenants and lived in Suffolk? or Sussex? passed close under Studley Park, and by Bishopton and at Ripon (the Unicorn) at 7 50 in 2 10 hours – tired to death of the slowness of our journey (9 miles) - the man at Ripon, too, would charge ¼ a mile so said we would sleep at Boroughbridge and return to see Studley and Newby Hall tomorrow - ¾ hour in the minster§ - very neatly kept – a new oak roof over the nave like the old one – very well done and an handsome new stone walk groined roof over the choir exactly like that there was before the tower (steeple) fell in and destroyed it - the charnel-house beautifully neat - the skulls and other bones (shins and shoulders) piled up as in the catacombs at Paris - some of the bones said to be 3 centuries old - this charnel-house unique in England?  The minister very pretty but not near so pretty (or so large?) as that at Beverley - at Boroughbridge in about 40 minutes (6 miles) at 8 43 – tea – very comfortable – all sorts of good bread and butter - honey and 2 glasses of good sweetmeat - wrote the above of today till 10 40 at which hour F48 1/2 - very fine day and beautiful evening.

§ the old painted altar-screen removed and replaced by a handsome one in stone so much lower as to allow the window above to be deepened by the 2 lower rows (tiers)  of arms, the window that was before far too low for its breadth being now much better proportioned tho’ still not tall enough - went upstairs at 11

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A Roman bog body found on Grewelthorpe Moor in 1850

A Roman bog body found on Grewelthorpe Moor in 1850

Here’s a fascinating post on Twitter here, by Emily Tilley: In 1850 two brothers digging peat on Grewelthorpe Moor found a Roman bog body wearing a green toga, scarlet robe, & yellow stockings. A policeman prevented the destruction of the remains & saved this hobnailed shoe sole, insole, & stocking fragment. For more information I was referred to R. C. Turner, M. Rhodes and J. P. Wild, “The…

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Overlooking the lake at the Himalayan Gardens, Grewelthorpe.

I couldn’t be doing with pink when I was younger.  I thought it was an itsy-bitsy sort of colour, suitable to be worn by annoying little girls of the Violet Elizabeth Bott persuasion (You do know who I’m talking about here, don’t you?  Violet Elizabeth was the lisping, spoiled creature who tormented Richmal Crompton’s delightfully grubby-kneed and accident-prone Just William, as popular now as when he was first created in 1922).

I declined to dress my young daughters in pink, or to wear it myself.  I despised its sugar-sweet prettiness.

These days I’m rather less hardline.  I even have a raspberry pink shirt.

All the same, I think pink is happiest in the garden.  It’s here that flowers can celebrate the colour in all its variety, from the softest most delicate shades of baby pink through to vibrant, vivacious flamingo pink.  Pastel pink.  Shocking pink.  And pinks that use flower names: cherry blossom; rose; fuschia; carnation; cyclamen; dogwood.

Here’s a picture gallery of May time flowers taken over the last few years.  All of them are pink.  And I like every single one.

Many of these pictures were taken in our garden; in our village; at Newby Hall; and at the Himalayan Gardens at Grewelthorpe.  It’s my entry for today’s Ragtag Challenge: pink.

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    Pretty in Pink I couldn't be doing with pink when I was younger.  I thought it was an itsy-bitsy sort of colour, suitable to be worn by annoying little girls of the Violet Elizabeth Bott persuasion (You do know who I'm talking about here, don't you? 

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Man can no longer park outside his home after council paints new school signs

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'Fisher's Hall', Neo-gothic folly Hackfall Wood, near Grewelthorpe, North. 'follymatters.wordpress.com

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Fly me to the moon or Mordor.

Location. It’s not just a place, it’s a character.

Grewelthorpe.

As a child did you have that special place where you hid out in a thunder storm? Or a place you returned to at every opportunity for adventure?

I did. Back in my hometown there is a man-made lake, with a wooden bridge that takes you over from one to the other.

Southport Marine Lake and the Victorian Venetian bridge.

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Tuesday 22 May 1832

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finish morning – F57° at 8 a.m. wind whistling as last night – afraid of rain by and by – good breakfast and very comfortable – but slept in my great coat off at 8 ¾ from Harrogate – at Ripley at 9 ¼ - very nice, neat, new-built Gothicized village – groups of cottage sin rows street-wise very pretty – fancied them at 1st some public building – a market cross – nearly opposite to it the neat small stewards’ house (now Mr. Edward? Paley at £800 a year – brother to Mrs. William Priestley) and near a neat pretty church – the hall (Sir William Inglbys’) close to the town, with castle like entrance – this vale of Nid rich and pretty  - sort of Cheshire red sandstone – good land and hedges – more striking after the high common like situation of Harrogate – Ripon at 10 ¼ - took Cameron and out in 5 minutes – minster under repair – quite plain within – not an atom of painted glass – very few monuments – a little York, but transept windows lancet-arched, and towers very squat and low – walked about low Agnes gate etc. all that part of the town I used to know so well at aet. 7 and 8 – the house (where I was at school) turned into the Mechanics’ Institution – otherwise much the same as above 30 years ago – then walked towards the canal – all hereabouts that used to be open and belong to the town, enclosed by means of the late Mr. Allanson who bought and gave land in exchange for Ailsa hill and walled it off and shurbbed and planted it – to me looked better wild and open – a civil sort of woman I had picked up walked about with me – the present dean Webbe, unpopular because making a fuss about the small tithes – then called to see Mrs. Featherstone the only one now left at the house of the minster vicar Mr. Brown who used to be good to me when a child – merely introduced myself as the little girl ages ago at Mrs. Hagues’ and Mrs. Chettles’ school to whom Mrs. F- and her family used to be so good – I do not believe she made me out at all – I thanked her for all her goodness etc. and walked up and down her garden with her the whole time about ¼ hour did not mention my name cared not she should recollect the all about my father and mother and Weighton and spoke of it as between twenty and thirty years since I was there and myself being five or six of age what littleness of mind why not mention all fairly I had even some doubts whether to have called on her at all I sometimes fancy I have some magnanimity  how all this undeceives me! very pretty country about Ripon – my recollections not quite so correct as I fancied tho’ yet perhaps not to be found fault with – off from the Unicorn Inn in the market place (really a handsome grande place – the column the highest and handsomest I have ever seen in any market place in England) at 11 20 for Hackfall 7 miles and thence to Masham 5 (the direct road would be to Leeming lane 10 miles and thence to Catterick bridge 13) – the Hambledor hills fine in the distance (right) – picturesque grit-stone village of Gruelthorpe [Grewelthorpe] at 12 25 famous for its cream cheeses from 6d. to 2/6 – turn down a little steep hill and in a minute or 2 at Hackfall house i.e. the cottage opposite the gate into the grounds – just 1 ½ hour making the tour till 1 55 – a beautiful winding richly oak-wooded valley with the river Eure that rises in Wensleydale which dale begins as it were at Leyburn taking in Middleham etc. a pretty shallow stream [?] along the narrow bottom – huts, and seats, and [?], and a mock old ruined Mowbray castle well enough placed on the different points of view – from Mowbray point on which a sort of banqueting room with little kitchen adjoined – fine extensive view – just below the extreme point this way of the Hambleton hills appears like a little squat blue cone Roseberry-topping, near Stokesley a little deeper misty blue than the clouds, distinguished York minster, 30 miles off – village of Tanfield – (hall not visible) – Sleningford hall (Staveley – married daughter of Claridge of Jervaux, and brother to Staveley of Tanfield hall belonging to Lord Aylesbury) and new Sleningfield hall colonel Dalton – this beautiful village of Hackfall consist of 80 or 90 acres all wood – this and a few farms all Mrs. Lawrence has here – 6 miles from Studgley – Hackfall bought of a poor man by Mr. Aisleby Mrs. L-s’ grandfather about 100 years ago – Mr. Danby Lord of the manor here – the land chiefly belongs to little freeholders – lets at 30/. an acre – the best, and not of the best quality about here – sells for £100 an acre – some let for convenience at £5 an acre – higher on account selling the cream well for cream cheeses – very fine day – at Masham at 2 ½ Kings’ head Inn the only posting house – irregular, little, goodish, calcareous grit-stone, market town with good, neat, spired church and very large square market place with small market cross in the middle. Said I had only paid 15 pence a mile at Ripon, and .:. got off the additional penny here – Middleham 10 miles from Masham town-end and Leyburn 12 miles – at Jervaux abbey at 3 40 – a confused plan of ruin covering a very extensive space – part of the plan only traced out in 1814 by the present Lord Aylesbury who was drown 4 years ago – no house for him but the one his steward Mr. Claridge lives in – a neat, plain small common gentleman’s house with nice gardens and grounds – the Refectory with ½ dozen lancet arched windows 2nd story the most conspicuous part of the ruin – Yoreval abbey (from Eurc val) valley of the Eure) founded in 1141 destroyed in 1537 – 25 minutes in the grounds and off again at 4 5 – return about a mile the same road we came then turn off to the village of Newton-le-Wilton and Attrick to Catterick bridge 13 miles – plenty of stone fences just about Jervaux (pronounced Jār-vă) – Attrick nice village about 5 miles from Catterick bridge and 1 beyond Newton le Wilton, with nice very good church – nice farming country – at 5 25, 3 miles from Catterwick see Hornby castle in the distance left – a good plain looking house from this 1st point of view – then at 5 35 pass very neat, low, battlemented, Greek-cross (centre part higher than the 4 limbs) lodge – (too many young, single trees in the grounds hereabouts – many long pieces of old thorn hedges left standing with about as much interval as hedge, and this answers better in point of look than might have been imagined) – and the house looks more deserving its name of castle – at Catterick at 6 a village-like little town with neat small church – a mile beyond is Catterick bridge a good stone bridge over the broad shallow Swale – the Inn a large good-looking stuccoed house – just opposite on the other side the road is the race ground – just over the bridge a few goodish cottages and a little ale house – except from Harrogate to Ripon and to within about 4 miles of Catterick, cross roads, really very fair ones, all today – no reading at all today – made the pencil notes of today and amused myself with musing – first of Lady Gordon incline to her thinking as I often do in travelling of Shiden and alterations there – planting – making a road traversing along Baristow to Southowram – a toll of 2d. per cart and ½ or 1d. per horse   would pay? – if the speculation would pay 10 p.c. it would do – nice enough little village of Scorton at 6 ½ - no trace of a gentlemans’ house – of Mr. Bowers where my aunts used to spend so much time when young – at 7 ½ first peep at Croft bridge – how well it looks – stretching across the board Tees and the very valley itself? at the Rectory at 7 40 – all out for the moment but Mrs. James Dalton and IN-

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a nice enough welcome – a little dinner tray brought in – minced veal, ham, etc. – then tea – came to my room at 10 50 – IN- came up with me and sat with me till 11 50 at which hour F61° in my bedroom (no fire) – very fine day after 12 – and very fine evening -  Marianne Dalton queer and violent and disagreeable as ever -

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Even better than the fact that Himalayan gardens exist here, and just eight miles from our house, is the fact that they’re next to the village of Grewelthorpe.  And if that isn’t the best village name in England, I don’t know what is.

All the same, what are Himalayan Gardens, complete with a sculpture park doing in North Yorkshire?

Twenty years ago, Peter and Caroline Roberts bought a twenty acre woodland garden.  It wasn’t up to much really.  Coppiced hazel, an infestation of Japanese knotweed, dense dark Sitka spruce woods.  Its redeeming feature was a drive of rhododendrons, and this gave Peter Roberts his idea.  He looked at other rhododendron collections at Castle Howard, at Bodnant, at Muncaster Castle, and was inspired.

Rhododendrons such as these must have inspired Peter Roberts. Can you spot the drift of red specimens in the background?

Alan Clark, rhododendron guru and Himalayan plant hunter, told him that both site and soil were ideal: ‘I was intrigued by the idea of creating a Himalayan garden from scratch and decided to give it a go!’

Clark helped him with early specimens, Roberts supported plant-hunting trips to the sino-himalayan area … and the gardens began.

You won’t just find rhododendrons and azaleas though.  There are massed plants that you’ll find in many well-stocked British gardens.  There are drifts of narcissus in the spring.  There are carpets of bluebells.  There are several lakes on site.  Word has got round the bird and insect community that this is a fine place to live, and any birdwatcher or entomologist could have a busy time here. As could visitors who enjoy coming across an eclectic mix of sculptures during their walk.

My photos have disappointed me.  They give little impression of the rich feast of colour provided by hillsides covered in an ever-changing pageant of different varieties of rhododendron and azalea.

Nor can you see that this is a work in progress.  Peter and Caroline Roberts are constantly developing the site, planting and extending the collection.  On Saturday, just after our visit, a new arboretum opened.

Go while you can.  This special place is open for two months only every spring, and for a further couple of weeks in the autumn. It’s worth a detour (Susan Rushton, I’m looking at you).

The Himalayan blue poppy makes its striking appearance throughout the gardens

The Himalayan Gardens Even better than the fact that Himalayan gardens exist here, and just eight miles from our house, is the fact that they're next to the village of Grewelthorpe.