Gazette Herald

Cycle ride around Burton Constable Hall in East Yorkshire

3:00pm Monday 23rd August 2010

THE Constable family of Burton Constable are descended from a Norman knight called Ulbert the Constable. They have been in possession of land at Holderness in East Yorkshire since the 12th century.

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Cycle ride around the Dales in Brompton, near Northallerton

12:38pm Thursday 22nd July 2010

IN the 17th century, country folk in the Yorkshire Dales took up profitable pastimes to supplement a living from their farms.

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Cycle ride around Guisborough

12:22pm Thursday 17th June 2010

IN 1804 the township of Tocketts belonged to the township of Guisborough, but even in the 1960s not many people knew of the existence of Tocketts.

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Cycle ride at Sheriff Hutton

12:23pm Thursday 20th May 2010

ON the north-east border of the great Forest of Galtres lay the tiny settlements of Marton in the Forest and Moxby, sometimes called Marton with Moxby.

Cycle ride in the Yorkshire Wolds - Kilham, Burton Agnes and Ruston Parva

11:58am Tuesday 4th May 2010

THE village of Ruston Parva lies nestled on the Yorkshire Wolds midway between Bridlington and Driffield.

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A cycle ride to Byland Abbey and Rievaulx

4:20pm Friday 19th March 2010

AS Abbot Gerold left Furness Abbey with his band of 12 monks to begin a new life at Calder on the Cumbrian coast, he couldn’t have envisaged the problems he and his followers would face before reaching their final destination in Ryedale. Gerold actually died before they built their beautiful abbey at Byland.

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Cycle ride around Hackness Hall

12:50pm Wednesday 17th February 2010

IN the days before the home refrigerator, it was always a problem to keep meat fresh by storage.

Cycle ride near Jevaulx Abbey

2:19pm Wednesday 20th January 2010

In the year 1144 a monk, Peter de Quincy, from Normandy, arrived in Yorkshire where he had heard that the people who lived there were in great need of religious instruction!

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Cycle ride around Coniston Lake

3:54pm Thursday 17th December 2009

THE village of Coniston in the Lake District thrived on the mining industry. Bronze Age man using the copper, Romans worked with iron and the monks of Furness Abbey took iron ore and timber from the surrounding hillsides.

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Scenic cycle ride around Whitby and Sandsend

3:11pm Thursday 19th November 2009

There are many superstitions in Yorkshire, none more quaint than those feared by sailors on the Yorkshire coast.

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Cycle ride: Kettlewell in Wharfedale

3:21pm Thursday 22nd October 2009

Although Kettlewell was almost swept away by the great flood of 1686, it thrives today and, with the nearby village of Starbotton, is one of the gems of Wharfedale.

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Sledmere cycle ride

2:21pm Wednesday 16th September 2009

IN the 18th century two great prophets emerged. One, a ploughboy called Nixon, was acclaimed to be a prophet in Cheshire, the other was Yorkshire’s very own other Mother Shipton. Both were famous in their day for forecasting the future.