Our World Tuesday - Visit to Lordstones

Lordstones is one of our favourite places, a cafe built into a hillside, out on the wilds of Carlton Bank, just a few miles away from the market town of Stokesley.  The cafe is named for a Celtic Standing Stone on the property which is around 5000 years old.  To get to Lordstones you need to take the B1257 from Helmsley to Chop Gate (pronounced Chop Yat by the locals!)  Halfway through the village there is a very sharp left hand bend, opposite the war memorial, that leads up a single track
road, about 3.5 miles along there, you will find the entrance to the cafe carpark on the right.

The cafe is popular with bikers, hikers, tourists in general and locals.  They are open every day of the year except Christmas Day and New Years Day.  They have a very extensive and reasonably priced menu, you can get anything from a simple sandwich to a full roast dinner, all kinds of deserts, plus several kinds of beer, and their own ice cold water on tap straight from an underground spring.  They also have Carp ponds very close to the cafe.  (That's one in the header pic.)

Turning left from the cafe and walking up the path towards what looks at first glance to be a golf course, there is the Standing Stone in front of you.  Keep walking up towards the horizon and suddenly you will find yourself overlooking a valley 1000 feet below, and stretching off into the distance as far as the eye can see.

It is very quiet up here, the occasional twitter of a bird, or voices of hikers floating through the air.  Down below in the valley you will see a beautiful patchwork of fields, the tiny white dots are sheep, and you just may hear the sound of a working tractor drifting up from the valley.

To the right you can see a conical hill, Roseberry Topping, it has an ancient and tragic legend attached to it, about a King, his wife and their small son.  If you want to read the story go to the following link:

http://jacselsknit-n-krochetkorner.blogspot.com/2011/03/vt-of-y-part-2-legend-of-roseberry.html

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Our World Tuesday - Malton Market Town - part 2

Following on from last week, a few more photo's from the market town of Malton, North Yorkshire, UK - It has been a wet-n-windy week here, but we had a decent day last Saturday and a chance for a few more local photo's  (Click on photo's to enlarge.)

Malton Museum used to be the Town Hall,
and before that it was the town Courthouse,
the old jail is below in the cellar.

Our Town Crier, he keeps us informed
of anything new going on in town.

Last Saturday some of the stalls were missing from the market, maybe
the stall-holders are taking a well deserved holiday.

 

Another view of our Victorian gentleman, showing the
famous door knocker on Scrooge's Office, they say if
you gaze at it long enough, you may see the ghostly
face of Jacob Marley...!



The office inside Scrooge's Counting House,
there are several rooms containing Victoriana.

Meet Peter (on the left) and Al, proprietors of the Whistlestop Cafe
at Malton Train Station, you won't go hungry here with their
belly-busting breakfasts and specials.

 

A recent visitor to the site of the Roman Fort Derventio, the Romans invaded us 2000 years ago and built their fort alongside the river, they keep coming back, but they are a pretty friendly bunch these days.


 

Swinton Lawn Bowls Club, just a mile or 2 from
Malton, on our way home.  We play there too.
The man in the red and white shirt is a Swinto
member.

 

St. Peters Church is just across the River Derwent
in Norton town, this is where we go on a Sunday.



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