Durham old town and its Cathedral

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Sunday we are heading to Durham a town in North Eastern England and it's wonderful Cathedral.

The streets of old Durham town, oldy worldly, twisty turny.

This Post Office pillar box leaning over from the wind

The new Alms House built in 1666 to replace the old one built in 1414.

The Cathedral Close now part of the most of the buildings belong to the university.

One of the wings of the Cathedral

Tha famous rose window of the Cathedral. The Building of the Cathedral began in 1080 and was completed around 1133. The rose window was added in the mid 19th. century.  No photo's of the inside I'm afraid, camera's not allowed.

More of the old streets 

The only view of the castle we got to see, by this time the wind was so strong the castle was closed to the public - health and safety - the 21st. century problem of Britain.

Over the next couple of days we will,be exploring the industrial history of the North East.

Sandsend & Kettleness Nab, Whitby

Whitby beach, this shot looking southeast towards the harbour piers, the abbey ruins on the East Cliff in the background.

Looking in the northerly direction towards Sandsend and Kettleness Nab. The Nab (the local name for headland) is much changed over the years because of alum mining. The mining came to an end around the mid 19th. century after around 150 years of hacking away the top of this headland to extract the shale from which they extracted the alum. Alum was a product used in the dying and leather industries. After the alum extracting finished the railway arrived which changed the headland again.   

The walk along the Nab is on the old railway right of way.

Pheasant taking the sun as we walk along the track

End of the road, the railway track goes into a tunnel here which is closed to the public, the trail goes over the top to pick up the old track on the other side but we decide to return.

Lovely views of the North Sea

A fishing boat with its catch returning to Whitby

Info board explaining the trail.

Back to Sandsend Village.

Heartbeat Country

We have crossed over from the west coast to the east coast, Irish Sea to the North Sea a drive of around 4 hours.  Today's trip out is onto the moors above Whitby to a village called Goathland otherwise known as Aidensfield in the tv show 'Heartbeat'. The first photo is a part of the moors called 'Hole of Horcum' a very scenic part of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park.

The steam train from Whitby to Pickering, a 20 mile journey, so popular they run 7 trains a day each way.

The Village of Goathland/Aidensfield with the old Ford Anglian police car.

Scripps Garage 

The Railway Station

The 11:50 from Whitby arriving a couple of minutes early, something unheard of in British Rail days.

The 11:50 from Pickering a couple minutes late.

The Goathland Hotel, better known as The Aidensfield Arms.

Greengrass's Farm.

 The view of Whitby from the top of Bluebank. The ruins of Whitby Abbey can be seen on the hill on the right first established by Hilda a princess sent by king Oswi of Northumbria in 657AD. These ruins date from the sacking of the Abbey in the 16th. century by Henry V111 when he was having is disagreements with the Pope.