Glaisdale Village
and Carr End
Contents:
Local Amenities
Location Map
Accommodation in Glaisdale
Local Sights
Community Groups
Heritage (History, Geology & Archaeology)
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Glaisdale village is an ironstone mining village of the 19th
Century with attractive terraces of slate-roofed cottages,
wide verges and greens that clings to the hillside on the
western side of the dale just south of the River Esk.
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Local Amenities
A picturesque village set at the mouth of Glaisdale.
Glaisdale village is to be found at the mouth of Glaisdale forming a larger community with Carr End , amenities available include:
- Place of worship - St Thomas C of E
- public house
- public phone box
- village Post office
- Glaisdale Station on the Middlesbrough to Whitby main line
There is a quiz night at the Arncliffe Arms every Sunday night at 8:00 pm. All Welcome.
The prefix of the Post Code for Glaisdale is YO21-2.
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Accommodation in Glaisdale
Presently there are no accommodation providers advertising with us from Glaisdale. If you would like your holiday accommodation to be listed here please contact us on enquiries@eskvalley.com
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Local Sights
Glaisdale is still an important centre to the North Yorks Moors farming community.
Nearby to the river bridge is the Railway
station and trains run between Whitby and Middlesbrough on
a regular basis. On the other side of the river is a road
that goes up a steep bank called 'Limber Hill'. This road
then leads to the village of Egton. Travelling in the opposite
direction the road at the bottom of Limber Hill will take
the visitor back out to the main Whitby to Guisborough road,
(The A171).
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Glaisdale is still an important centre to
the North Yorks Moors farming community. Two of the main
North Yorkshire sheep sales are held
here in the fall and this is the main time that 'store lambs'
and breeding sheep are sold to buyers mainly from the lowlands
who take them to their farms where they can be more easily
fattened for the meat trade.
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Farming is still a major part of the rural economy here, as
it is in the rest of the north yorks moors, and helps to
shape the landscape that we know as the countryside today.
The drystone walls that are typical of the field boundaries
in the moors were originally built from the stones that had
been dragged to the borders of the fields when the land was
cleared and ploughed. A well built dry stone wall should last
more than a hundred years, if it is built correctly, and is
not subject to undermining by streams, drains or moles.
When the visitor looks across the dales they may notice that
the drystone walls tend to follow a particular line along
the dale. This line that they follow was the original 'snow
line' when the fields were initially cultivated and was adopted
as the field boundary.
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Community Groups
The following is are details of local none profit making Community Service Group or Registered Charitable Organisation, serving this community.
There are many community groups serving the area and it our intention to bring you details of their activities, if you are an organiser or member of a group or organisation and would like to see your details here, please contact us on enquiries@eskvalley.com
Whitby District/Esk valley youth club. Providing Youth Events and activities for the area, with past events including - Games and nonalcoholic cocktail bar in Glaisdale village hall, Gospel concert in Whitby, skating at Billingham Forum and Sailing. For details contact Whitby District youth worker. Gaynor.hunt@care4free.net
Adult Tap Dancing Classes at Robinson Institute Glaisdale on Wedensday evening, the beginers class is at 7.00pm until 7.45pm followed by advanced class 7.45 until 9.00pm All welcome
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Heritage
Research is currently being carried out to bring you further details of the heritage of Glaisdale.
There are two bridges that cross the river;
one where the present road crosses the river which is constructed
chiefly of metal, and the other known locally as 'Beggar's
Bridge; This is an attractive high arched stone-built packhorse
bridge which is just downstream of the first was built in
1619 by Thomas Ferries the son of a local moorland farmer.
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It is said that whilst courting Agnes, the daughter of a well-to-do
landowner who thought that poor Thomas was beneath his daughter,
Thomas had to swim across the Esk to see her.
Thomas decided that the only way to find his fortune and thus
please Agnese's Father was to go to sea. The night before
his departure, the river was so high that he was unable to
meet Agnes to say his farewells. Legend has it that he swore
that upon his return he would build a bridge on that very
spot.
Thomas was true to his word with the bridge is still standing
but no longer in use, except as a footbridge.
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view more pictures of BEGGARS BRIDGE
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Because iron ore was abundant in the surrounding
hills three blast furnaces were built here in 1869. In time
they were unable to compete economically with steelworks that
had easier access to iron ore and coke and inevitably the
blast furnaces were closed down in 1875.
Glaisdale was also an important trading centre.
So important was it that an Irish engineer was commissioned
to build a railway to it. This project ran out of money before
it was completed and various unfinished cuttings and embankments
can be seen on the moors along the planned route. These remains
are affectionately known locally as 'Paddy Waddle's Railway'.
If you have any knowledge or have information about local history, folklore, Geology & Archaeology which you think would be of interest to other please contact us.
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