Oct 22nd, 2010 at 3:00PM:
Yorkshire has always been a troubled region of England. It was on the front line of fighting between the English and the Scots and saw lots of action in the English Civil War, when the forces of Parliament under Oliver Cromwell fought the Royalists supporting King Charles I. Because of this, many castles dot the landscape, including some of the most magnificent the country has to offer. Here are ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Top five best castles of Yorkshire
Oct 22nd, 2010 at 3:00PM:
Yorkshire has always been a troubled region of England. It was on the front line of fighting between the English and the Scots and saw lots of action in the English Civil War, when the forces of Parliament under Oliver Cromwell fought the Royalists supporting King Charles I. Because of this, many castles dot the landscape, including some of the most magnificent the country has to offer. Here are ...York: capital of England's north
Oct 19th, 2010 at 3:30PM: So far my journey through Yorkshire has been one of small towns and moorlands, yet the most popular destination in Yorkshire is the city that gives the shire its name--York. No trip to the north of England would be complete without checking out this historic city.
A brief look at York's long history
Like many English cities, York's origins are lost in prehistory. It's first recorded in the ...Brimham Rocks: weird natural formations in Yorkshire
Oct 16th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
What do you see in this picture? In Victorian times, the local people called this The Dancing Bear. In a more PC age where we don't humiliate animals for our entertainment (much) the name has been changed to The Dog. Looks like he's begging at his master's dinner table.
This is one of many rock formations at Brimham Rocks, Yorkshire, England. An ancient river laid down grit and sand in this ...Hiking the Yorkshire Moors
Oct 13th, 2010 at 9:30AM:
England is a wonderful place to hike. When the weather is fine the countryside is as beautiful as you'll find anywhere, and it seems that every step is steeped in history. There's variety too, from idyllic hikes along the Thames to challenging treks along the length of Hadrian's Wall.
One of the more unique places for hiking in England is the Yorkshire Moors. Moorland is found in uplands that ...The good old days were horrible
Oct 12th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
Ah, Merry Olde England! A time and place with happy people, clean streets, and scenes that looked just like they do on BBC historical dramas.
Not!
Premodern England was a grim place of death, filth, and general misery. Actually that can describe pretty much everywhere in the nineteenth century, but the town where the Brontë sisters lived was especially nasty. Some authors write novels ...Three nights in a haunted hotel room
Oct 8th, 2010 at 11:30AM:
The best thing about being an agnostic is that you don't have to live your life fearing the unknown. The worst thing is admitting the possibility that there might be something to fear after all.
Instead of pretending to have all the answers, my belief system ranks things in order of likelihood, and ghosts are pretty far down the list. Not as low as Santa Claus or the "we never landed on the ...Visiting the Brontë sisters in Yorkshire
Oct 7th, 2010 at 9:30AM: People say literary genius is a rare thing, something seen only once in a thousand or a million people. Maybe so, but the Brontës had three (and maybe five) literary geniuses in the same family.
From their father's parsonage in Haworth, Yorkshire, in northern England, the three Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne produced some of the most popular books in the English language. ...
