Glaisdale Village
and Carr End

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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.

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.

Location map

Glaisdale is located in grid C2

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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Businesses in Glaisdale

Bank House Farm Organic Meats Chris & Emma Padmore Bank House Farm Glaisdale Whitby North Yorkshire YO21 2QA Tel: +44 (0) 1947 897297 Chris and Emma Padmore invite you to sample their award winning organic pork, beef and lamb. Their animals are reared on their organic farm in Glaisdale dale and is available to you at very reasonable prices. The meat is from carefully selected native British breeds for optimum flavour and reared to the highest inspected welfare specifications. They have been farming organically since 1991, and are registered with the Soil Association. The meat is seasonally available and is supplied frozen so please do ring before coming to buy some and bring insulated containers to ensure that the meat does not thaw particularly in hot weather or when making long journeys. Chris and Emma are proud of the farm system that they operate which promotes a wide variety of species preserving a healthy legacy for future generations. They run guided tours for groups of up to 20 by appointment only from April to October. Please telephone or e-mail, (e-mail: chrispadmore@btinternet.com), for details.

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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).  

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.

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.

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

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.

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.