The annual show (every August) is run by the Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Society. This year will include Cattle, Goats, Heavy Horses, Ponies, jumping, local produce, Rabbits, Vintage Tractors & Scarecrows and much more. More details to follow soon on the Rosedale Show’s website.
Rosedale Abbey is part of the “This Exploited Land of Iron” Project. Click for more info.
Welcome to the Rosedale blog. This is where we share news and information about events in Rosedale and the wider community throughout the year. You’ll also find news about the village timetable, our micro enterprises, school events, clubs, and lively socials.
A real autumnal feel walking through the dale this weekend. Birds and mammals taking full advantage of the seasonal bounty along our hedgerows. Hazels Corylus avellana full of cobnuts and Guelder Rose Viburnum opulus laden with shiny red berries. Good to be out. Updale Natural History Recorder
Hazel cobnuts
Guelder rose berries
Aine Howe Cross
A wonderful bloom of heather across the moors this year, but come soon as it wont’t last long!
Published in the Yorkshire Post on 26 August.
Brook lamprey are some of the most primitive vertebrates alive today and they are spawning in our river here in Rosedale right now. They are jawless, having a round sucker-like mouth and small round gill openings on the sides of the head. They have two dorsal fins and are about 15cm long. They spawn in clean gravel beds. Wonder if they know how excited Rosedale folk are about the TDY! Updale Natural History Recorder
Brook lamprey at Battlings Hill ford
The 2014 Walking Festival in Rosedale was blessed with reasonable weather this year so that around 40 hikers took part in the wide variety of walks over Saturday and Sunday 14 to 15 June.
Saturday – The Tea Shop group meet up with the Pilgrims’ Way walkers on the line.
The Walking The Line group about to set off on an 11 miler.
Rosedale Wildlife Walkers
History Walkers learning about the ‘Bug and Flea Hotel’ – the hostel for itinerant farm workers near Northdale Farm
More plants have mysteriously appeared in one of the empty tubs around the village.
Thanks to another mystery gardener!
There are a couple of empty tubs still on the green, so feel free to dig in and get planting – some herbs, perhaps?
Kestrels are our commonest falcon and widespread throughout the UK in both urban and rural areas. They are easily identified by their ability to hover while hunting for prey, with fluttering wings and fanned tail, keeping the head perfectly still. Up on the moor these four nestlings are well grown and starting to acquire their true plumage. They are coming out in to the open in anticipation of food from the adult birds. Until now they have been well hidden in a crevice. Incubation takes about four weeks and at least another four weeks feeding at the nest until fledging which is not too far away for these. Interestingly, the males fledge up to two days earlier than the females, presumably as the females are the larger of the two and take longer to mature. Updale Natural History Recorder
Four kestrel nestlings
Colt’s Foot
From The White Horse Farm Inn
The first, slushy snow of the winter in Rosedale, best viewed through a pub window.
