http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/ Gazette & Herald /leisure/cyclerides/ en-gb Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:04:35 +0000 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:04:35 +0000 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/resources/images/1001325/?type=rsslogo http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/ http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/5073321.A_cycle_ride_to_Byland_Abbey_and_Rievaulx/?ref=rss 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. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:20:00 +0000 286040e214a315b54a507d1afc25f0c7 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/5010882.Cycle_ride_around_Hackness_Hall/?ref=rss IN the days before the home refrigerator, it was always a problem to keep meat fresh by storage. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:50:00 +0000 6ecdb9ba7dcddab36c6c4bbde507ba43 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4861532.Cycle_ride_near_Jevaulx_Abbey/?ref=rss 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! Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:19:48 +0000 b888119517ca6540e9e75dea5337ff27 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4803685.Cycle_ride_around_Coniston_Lake/?ref=rss 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. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:54:10 +0000 3573f18f6e1357064d86d880c0427518 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4749371.Scenic_cycle_ride_around_Whitby_and_Sandsend/?ref=rss There are many superstitions in Yorkshire, none more quaint than those feared by sailors on the Yorkshire coast. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:11:47 +0000 45670c5fd0a431bbc526f9918e9ce7d4 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4698228.Cycle_ride__Kettlewell_in_Wharfedale/?ref=rss 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. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:21:19 +0100 6ecfd41f0caf850057205f0fcf142fef http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4632231.Sledmere_cycle_ride/?ref=rss 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. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:21:00 +0100 5b0582a925740b43e1d1381c7690e31f http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4557096.Cycle_ride__The_Old_Wife_s_Way__Dalby_Forest/?ref=rss Thousands of years ago the Urn people inhabited the northern moors. Their unquestioning belief in ghosts led them to burn the bodies of the dead. They thought that the fire would carry their ghosts into an invisible world and stop them from returning to earth. Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:50:01 +0100 a394f408a0b5a37c425f2a8c632a29a6 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4494210.Brompton__Wykeham_and_Sawdon_cycle_ride/?ref=rss HISTORY abounds on this ride to find some prehistoric round barrows called the three tremblers hidden away in Wykeham Forest. Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:40:23 +0100 5e4e0ee8dbc34f7784009565582b3fa7 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4446802.Chariots_of_a_Wolds_princess/?ref=rss MORE than 2,000 years ago a strange burial ritual took place at Wetwang on the Yorkshire Wolds. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:39:10 +0100 bb198b43349d9e3f962171216f54f4d6 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4387174.Architect_of_his_own_design/?ref=rss WHEN Sydney Smith of London arrived at the parish of Foston-le-Clay, he found a bare, cold church and no accommodation. Thu, 21 May 2009 15:38:59 +0100 8a560d17540298c2767793887822ff66 http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/leisure/cyclerides/4292948.Cycle_in_grand_style_to_arrive_at_a_stately_pile/?ref=rss BENINGBROUGH Hall, once a modest Elizabethan manor house built around 1556, was rebuilt by John Bourchier in 1716. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:20:00 +0100 4a97b82628a56038e4b2f92f7d932a62