#haggesgate

The moor of phlegm

Urra Moor has the highest point on the North York Moors. Fly east, keeping the same height and you won’t touch land again until the Ural Mountains. When an east wind blows this can be a bleak spot. The name ‘Urra’ probably comes from the old English ‘horh’meaning phlegm or filth, perhaps an indication of what the Anglo-Saxons thought of the place although in medieval medicine phlegm was one of…

Amazingly clear views over Teesside today. Roseberry is there somewhere.

That deep embayment at their western extremity, Greenhow Botton, around which the moors attain their greatest elevation of nearly 1500 feet, is perhaps the most remarkable feature of the hills. The Botton lies almost a mile to the south of the line of the main range of uplands and has remarkably steep and precipitous sides on the south. These sides are wild and rugged in the extreme and are…