PATCHWORK AT DALEHEAD FARM TEA ROOM – 30 AUGUST 2024
Rosedale Show
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.
Rosedale Community News
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Archive for the ‘Walks’ Category
Line Closure – 8 July to 30 September 2019
Natural England have announced the temporary removal of open access to the old railway line from Reeking Gill around Dale Head to Blakey Junction from 8 July to 30 September to allow essential work to be done restore the path as part of the Land of Iron project- see the flyer for details:
Signage has been put by NYMNP at 16 access points to the line around the dale.
Rosedale Walking Festival 2019
The Walking Festival was blessed with warm weather with a good turnout of a mixture of regulars and many first time visitors.
Walking Festival – Exploring Rosedale’s Wildlife Habitats
On Saturday 23 June 2018 Rosedale’s Updale Natural History Recorder took 11 keen walkers along a journey through the dale visiting various habitats. Walking alongside hedgerows full of dog rose and walls lined with foxgloves and ferns was a real pleasure. The route included the river to Low Thorgill Farm, Thorgill and the hillside above Thorgill and the track north of Thorgill.
The banks of the River Seven hosted numerous birds nests including wren, robin, coal tit and dipper. Trees and shrubs alongside added nests of great spotted woodpecker, blackcap, nuthatch, redstart and green woodpecker. Further afield were willow warbler and chaffinch. All but one nest had already hosted a brood this year and were no longer in use or were last year’s. They gave a great insight in to bird breeding in the dale. A pair of green woodpeckers were still feeding young in their nest hole high up in an ash tree alongside the river and the group were very lucky to watch one of the young peering out of the hole. A spotted flycatcher performed what they do best, flitting out from a branch, taking an insect in mid-air and returning to the same perch. Over the moor a red kite soared high and curlews gave protecting warning calls to their young.
The group visited habitats which favoured some less common flora. Wet flushes revealed musk, creeping forgetmenot and round-leaved water crowfoot. Unimproved acidic pasture hosted our locally rare heath spotted orchid (just the one), bitter vetchling, heath speedwell and heath bedstraw. Close to the moor there was the delicate looking but robust chickweed wintergreen. Both trailing and slender St John’s wort was encountered on a dry trackside leading up to the moor. Three sedges included yellow, oval and remote.
It was good to see ringlet, common blue and small heath butterflies but none in great numbers despite the warm weather.
It was a pleasure to lead such an engaging and interested group Updale Natural History Recorder
Musk
Heath spotted orchid
Spotted flycatcher
Young green woodpecker still being fed in nest hole
Rosedale Walking and Heritage Festival – 23 to 24 June 2018
The first of the combined Rosedale walking and heritage festival went well, with good weather on both days for the walkers and lots of visitors to the Rosedale History Society and Land of Iron heritage information stands. The combined format was a great success, with a lot of very positive feedback from walkers and visitors, such that the final number for this year’s event are around 121 walkers or 50% more than last year, a great tribute to the tireless efforts of Kate Jones and Ian Thompson in organising and promoting the event, to all those who volunteered their time and expertise as walk leaders and to the Rosedale History Society and the Land Of Iron project for their fascinating stands. Watch out for details of the 2019 festival!
Day 1 – Linda and Tom waiting for the onrush of visitors
Day 1 – The natural history ramblers being briefed .
Day 1 – The tea shop walkers about to set off, led by Ian Thompson on the right
Day 1 – Elspeth Ingleby and her botanists deep in the oat grass
Day 1 – Tom Mutton training up new civil engineers on the Land of Iron stand
Day 1 – Dave Oakey and his beerminders getting ready to meet their group.
Day 1 – the Ale House Walkers warming up at the White Horse Farm Inn. Photo by Dave Oakey
Day 1 – An hour or so later, the Ale House Walkers cooling down with a stash of river temperature beer! Photo by Dave Oakey
The artistic walkers at the start of the Goldsworthy Trail on Day 2 of the festival
Day 2 – Land of Iron Walk Dog Cooling Station – Dunn Carr Bridge
Day 2 – Land of Iron Walk approaching East Mines
Day 2 – Land of Iron Walkers at East Mines
Day 2 – Shirley Drew and Janet Dring send off more treasure hunters around the village
Day 2 -Happy Nordics up on the line – photo by Jane Schofield
Moors Bus News
Rosedale gets weekend buses
On Saturdays and Sundays until the end of September Moorsbus connects Rosedale with the rest of the world.
Not only can visitors from the region get to Rosedale Abbey for its walks, tea rooms, accommodation and other attractions, but Rosedale residents can get to Pickering to connect with other services.
Five services on Saturdays make it possible for locals to get to Scarborough for over a four hour visit. And four services on Sundays connect with Pickering as well as giving locals a direct morning service to Ralph Cross and Danby.
Using the bus also gives locals and visitors some great choices of ‘Buswalks’ – linear walks which save both the cost and problems of taking a car to the start of a walk, and then having to get back to the car at the end.
Moorsbus at Ralph’s Cross
Fares for an all-day, travel-anywhere Moorsbus Rover ticket are £9 or £4.50 for a child. Single fares are also available and Rosedale to the Moors Centre at Danby costs £3, for example. National concessionary passes are accepted on all Moorsbuses. All the details are on www.moorsbus.org or pick up a timetable in shops and libraries.
So this summer, Rosedale is better connected than ever.
Snow covered dale
Stunningly beautiful walk in the snow at dusk along the old railway line at Rosedale East. The low mist adds to the atmospheric conditions as the light fades. A pair of stonechats break the silence with their presence as do three wrens flitting together in the rushes Updale Natural History Recorder
Heather Heaven
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.
Rosedale on the cover of the OS map – VOTE
It’s Official Rosedale is one of the Friendliest Places to Walk
In the Yorkshire Post there is a lovely piece about the Walkers are Welcome Scheme .
We are proud to be part of this. Thank you to the numerous folks from our Rosedale community who freely give their time to make it happen every year.
“Gary Verity, chief executive of the region’s tourism body Welcome to Yorkshire, hailed another reason to be proud of the county.
“Yorkshire is famous for its warm welcome and generous hospitality, and for yet another Yorkshire town to receive Walkers Are Welcome status goes to show that the county’s famous hello remains very much part of its charm.
“And now with 25 towns and villages across the county recognised by the Walkers Are Welcome scheme, Yorkshire is reigning supreme as one of the nation’s top destinations for ramblers, amblers and hikers.”
Rosedale is fully Walkers are Welcome accredited.
The Rosedale Walking Festival is in 13th & 14th June. Two days of walks led by volunteers from our community and who love the place!
Walks to be announced soon, though there is a sign on the village green advertising this wonderful community led event, and the festival is over two days, you can walk anytime you like on the numerous beautiful paths that cover our dale, anytime of the year.
If you want local knowledge, a local guide, enjoy Rosedale from a new perspective come along to one of the guided walks this June.
See the full article here:-
Like our dedicated Festival Face Book page for details https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rosedale-Walking-Festival/
