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May 7, 2012 - Onto the Moors
Today we headed out to the Yorkshire Moors to the small village of Rosedale Abbey in the Rosedale Valley. The area is mixture of wild moorlands and stone-walled fields of farms. The area was first settled in the Bronze Age. In the 12th century a group of Cistercian or Benedictine nuns arrived and a priory was built which eventually closed in 1536 on the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. Hence how the village got its name. Our walk took us through farmyards over pretty streams and through a number of small hamlets. Daisy even...
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