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Scargill

Civil Parish in Yorkshire

England

Scargill

Shooting hut beside East Black Sike East Black Sike drains part of Scargill High Moor. The hut is set into a gouge into the slope on the west side of the stream; it can be approached by an estate road from the north.
Shooting hut beside East Black Sike Credit: Trevor Littlewood

Scargill is a civil parish located in the beautiful county of Yorkshire, England. Situated in the Richmondshire district, the parish covers an area of approximately 5 square kilometers and is home to a small population of around 100 residents.

The village of Scargill is nestled amidst the picturesque Yorkshire Dales, offering stunning views of rolling hills and lush green landscapes. The parish is characterized by its tranquil and idyllic setting, making it a popular choice for those seeking a peaceful countryside retreat.

Although small in size, Scargill has a rich history that dates back many centuries. The village boasts several historic buildings and landmarks, including St. Mary's Church, a charming place of worship that has stood as a centerpiece of the community for generations.

The local economy of Scargill relies mainly on agriculture, with farming playing a significant role in the livelihood of its residents. The fertile soil and favorable climate make it an ideal location for cultivating crops and rearing livestock.

Scargill offers a range of recreational activities for both residents and visitors to enjoy. The surrounding countryside provides ample opportunities for hiking, cycling, and horse riding, allowing nature enthusiasts to explore the area's natural beauty. The village also has a close-knit community, organizing events and social gatherings throughout the year.

In conclusion, Scargill, Yorkshire, is a peaceful and charming civil parish that offers a tranquil escape from the hustle and bustle of city life. Its stunning natural landscapes, rich history, and friendly community make it a delightful place to visit or call home.

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Shooting hut beside East Black Sike East Black Sike drains part of Scargill High Moor. The hut is set into a gouge into the slope on the west side of the stream; it can be approached by an estate road from the north.
Shooting hut beside East Black Sike
East Black Sike drains part of Scargill High Moor. The hut is set into a gouge into the slope on the west side of the stream; it can be approached by an estate road from the north.
Grouse butt at rock band White Crag is a discontinuous rock band mainly broken into large numbers of angular boulders overlooking Scargill High Moor. A number of grouse butts has been built into the rock band using the material obviously available. A thin path runs along the crag.
Grouse butt at rock band
White Crag is a discontinuous rock band mainly broken into large numbers of angular boulders overlooking Scargill High Moor. A number of grouse butts has been built into the rock band using the material obviously available. A thin path runs along the crag.
Cuboid boulders along White Crag White Crag is a discontinuous rock band broken mainly into angular boulders overlooking Scargill High Moor. The continuing rocks can be seen running into the distance. Further into the distance, beyond the moorland is Stang Forest.
Cuboid boulders along White Crag
White Crag is a discontinuous rock band broken mainly into angular boulders overlooking Scargill High Moor. The continuing rocks can be seen running into the distance. Further into the distance, beyond the moorland is Stang Forest.
Cuboid boulders along White Crag - 2 White Crag is a discontinuous rock band broken into angular boulders overlooking Scargill High Moor. More rocks can be seen running into the distance. In the far distance, beyond the moorland, can be seen the coniferous trees of Stang Forest.
Cuboid boulders along White Crag - 2
White Crag is a discontinuous rock band broken into angular boulders overlooking Scargill High Moor. More rocks can be seen running into the distance. In the far distance, beyond the moorland, can be seen the coniferous trees of Stang Forest.
High Moor Lunch Hut As well as lots of Covid-related signage and hand-sanitiser at every door, the shooting hut also has a prominent sign announcing its identity to anyone coming up the track from lower down in the drainage of East Black Sike, though it seems likely that anyone with need to know would be accompanied by drivers, beaters and others who could just as easily tell them (if they hadn't already been briefed when paying out the exorbitant sums to come and shoot things). Presumably it also becomes obvious when, on Scargill High Moor, they get provided with lunch...
High Moor Lunch Hut
As well as lots of Covid-related signage and hand-sanitiser at every door, the shooting hut also has a prominent sign announcing its identity to anyone coming up the track from lower down in the drainage of East Black Sike, though it seems likely that anyone with need to know would be accompanied by drivers, beaters and others who could just as easily tell them (if they hadn't already been briefed when paying out the exorbitant sums to come and shoot things). Presumably it also becomes obvious when, on Scargill High Moor, they get provided with lunch...
Eroding sandstone on Scargill High Moor The prominent escarpment at the top of Scargill High Moor is formed in the unnamed sandstone that lies just below the Little Limestone, towards the bottom of the Stainmore Group, of Pendleian age in the Carboniferous. It's part of what older ones among us will remember as being the Millstone Grit series. At the top of the slope, blocks of sandstone are weathering out, and have little or no peat drift covering them. Just back from the edge, a path links lines of grouse butts, making for surprisingly easy and pleasant walking. Even beyond the last grouse butt (some way to the west) the path continues as a gamekeeper's access, somewhat narrower but still giving mostly easy footing.
Eroding sandstone on Scargill High Moor
The prominent escarpment at the top of Scargill High Moor is formed in the unnamed sandstone that lies just below the Little Limestone, towards the bottom of the Stainmore Group, of Pendleian age in the Carboniferous. It's part of what older ones among us will remember as being the Millstone Grit series. At the top of the slope, blocks of sandstone are weathering out, and have little or no peat drift covering them. Just back from the edge, a path links lines of grouse butts, making for surprisingly easy and pleasant walking. Even beyond the last grouse butt (some way to the west) the path continues as a gamekeeper's access, somewhat narrower but still giving mostly easy footing.
Eroding sandstone on Scargill High Moor The prominent escarpment at the top of Scargill High Moor is formed in the unnamed sandstone that lies just below the Little Limestone, towards the bottom of the Stainmore Group, of Pendleian age in the Carboniferous. It's part of what older ones among us will remember as being the Millstone Grit series. At the top of the slope, blocks of sandstone are weathering out, and have little or no peat drift covering them. Just back from the edge, a path links lines of grouse butts, making for surprisingly easy and pleasant walking. Even beyond the last grouse butt (some way to the west) the path continues as a gamekeeper's access, somewhat narrower but still giving mostly easy footing.
Eroding sandstone on Scargill High Moor
The prominent escarpment at the top of Scargill High Moor is formed in the unnamed sandstone that lies just below the Little Limestone, towards the bottom of the Stainmore Group, of Pendleian age in the Carboniferous. It's part of what older ones among us will remember as being the Millstone Grit series. At the top of the slope, blocks of sandstone are weathering out, and have little or no peat drift covering them. Just back from the edge, a path links lines of grouse butts, making for surprisingly easy and pleasant walking. Even beyond the last grouse butt (some way to the west) the path continues as a gamekeeper's access, somewhat narrower but still giving mostly easy footing.
North towards Citron Seat From the Gilmonby road, a bridleway heads south as a good track, and where it splits, the branch to Citron Seat (the small dark-topped hill right on centre in this view) continues very clear, though, like the southern branch, it ends very abruptly at no particularly obvious destination (just at a change of local authority administering the definitive rights of way map). The southern branch passes through this view just at the foot of the slope, though you'd hardly know it. Since it terminates abruptly at the boundary wall and fails to enter the Yorkshire Dales National park, its original destination is unclear, but somewhere in upper Arkengarthdale seems likely, perhaps joining the public footpath which also started life as a bridleway until it hit the National Park frontier. One suspects some severe laxity in recording the rights of way after the 1949 Countryside Act.
North towards Citron Seat
From the Gilmonby road, a bridleway heads south as a good track, and where it splits, the branch to Citron Seat (the small dark-topped hill right on centre in this view) continues very clear, though, like the southern branch, it ends very abruptly at no particularly obvious destination (just at a change of local authority administering the definitive rights of way map). The southern branch passes through this view just at the foot of the slope, though you'd hardly know it. Since it terminates abruptly at the boundary wall and fails to enter the Yorkshire Dales National park, its original destination is unclear, but somewhere in upper Arkengarthdale seems likely, perhaps joining the public footpath which also started life as a bridleway until it hit the National Park frontier. One suspects some severe laxity in recording the rights of way after the 1949 Countryside Act.
Tarnhow Hill Although apparently a very minor eminence on the map, Tarnhow Hill seems quite prominent across the otherwise rather flat bit of moorland above Bleakhow Edge (itself a rather over-grandiose name for a short steep slope with a few sandstone boulders). There's a small crag or perhaps a quarry, which I would have guessed was formed in the Little Limestone, but BGS sheet 41 (Kirkby Stephen) shows it as Richmond Chert, a little above the limestone. It also shows Tarnhow Hill covered in drift with no actual bedrock showing, which is clearly not the case, so I withhold judgement on which bed is outcropping, as I suspect that the mappers, like myself today, may not have trekked over to the hill and examined it in detail. The drystone wall which crosses its shoulder, marks the post-1974 border between North Yorkshire and County Durham (prior to that, the boundary was along the River Tees, further north) and is also the frontier of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A number of rights of way either change status to lesser rights, or terminate abruptly on that border, suggesting that within the Park (in 1949 it was all the North Riding) recording of existing paths was far more lax than outside on the definitive map. Given the time it took for the 1949 Act to result in these definitive maps, it is possible that the discrepancy lay between the post-1974 county authorities.
Tarnhow Hill
Although apparently a very minor eminence on the map, Tarnhow Hill seems quite prominent across the otherwise rather flat bit of moorland above Bleakhow Edge (itself a rather over-grandiose name for a short steep slope with a few sandstone boulders). There's a small crag or perhaps a quarry, which I would have guessed was formed in the Little Limestone, but BGS sheet 41 (Kirkby Stephen) shows it as Richmond Chert, a little above the limestone. It also shows Tarnhow Hill covered in drift with no actual bedrock showing, which is clearly not the case, so I withhold judgement on which bed is outcropping, as I suspect that the mappers, like myself today, may not have trekked over to the hill and examined it in detail. The drystone wall which crosses its shoulder, marks the post-1974 border between North Yorkshire and County Durham (prior to that, the boundary was along the River Tees, further north) and is also the frontier of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A number of rights of way either change status to lesser rights, or terminate abruptly on that border, suggesting that within the Park (in 1949 it was all the North Riding) recording of existing paths was far more lax than outside on the definitive map. Given the time it took for the 1949 Act to result in these definitive maps, it is possible that the discrepancy lay between the post-1974 county authorities.
Gamekeeper's path on White Crag Moss Beyond the last grouse butt on Scargill High Moor, the broad footpath serving those butts (used by off-road vehicles, one suspects) shrinks to just a footpath, though the occasional fat tyre track does suggest something motorised occasionally passes this way. Lots of predator traps and grouse medication trays imply the primary purpose is for gamekeeper's access, but being along the top of the sandstone outcrop where the peat is shallow or absent, the path is surprisingly easy underfoot and the views north over the Greta valley are rather fine.
Gamekeeper's path on White Crag Moss
Beyond the last grouse butt on Scargill High Moor, the broad footpath serving those butts (used by off-road vehicles, one suspects) shrinks to just a footpath, though the occasional fat tyre track does suggest something motorised occasionally passes this way. Lots of predator traps and grouse medication trays imply the primary purpose is for gamekeeper's access, but being along the top of the sandstone outcrop where the peat is shallow or absent, the path is surprisingly easy underfoot and the views north over the Greta valley are rather fine.
Citron Seat Citron Seat is a modest moorland hill with a distinctively pointed summit. The view is from the north-west, over a bog, across which runs a collapsing wooden fence.
Citron Seat
Citron Seat is a modest moorland hill with a distinctively pointed summit. The view is from the north-west, over a bog, across which runs a collapsing wooden fence.
Hill road east of Citron Seat The road runs alongside the wall following the ridge connecting Citron Seat and Hazel Bush Hill; both features are behind the camera position. Its purpose is to allow easy access for grouse shooting parties.
Hill road east of Citron Seat
The road runs alongside the wall following the ridge connecting Citron Seat and Hazel Bush Hill; both features are behind the camera position. Its purpose is to allow easy access for grouse shooting parties.
Cotron Seat Citron Seat near Bowes
Cotron Seat
Citron Seat near Bowes
Citron Seat Citron Seat is a minor but abrupt rise along a moorland ridge above Gilmonby Moor on the south side of the valley of the River Greta.
Citron Seat
Citron Seat is a minor but abrupt rise along a moorland ridge above Gilmonby Moor on the south side of the valley of the River Greta.
Faggergill The track above the disused mine makes for easy walking until it peters out on the slopes of Hoove.The path actually glistens in the sunlight due to the amount of Quartz crystal lying around . Geologists could fill carrier bags full of the stuff as well as rocks with Galena and other assorted minerals if given time to explore.
Faggergill
The track above the disused mine makes for easy walking until it peters out on the slopes of Hoove.The path actually glistens in the sunlight due to the amount of Quartz crystal lying around . Geologists could fill carrier bags full of the stuff as well as rocks with Galena and other assorted minerals if given time to explore.
Shooting hut Shooting hut at the disused Faggergill lead mines.
Shooting hut
Shooting hut at the disused Faggergill lead mines.
Black Sike Black Sike has cut a deep ravine through the peat moor on its journey from the plateau north of the summit of Hoove.
Black Sike
Black Sike has cut a deep ravine through the peat moor on its journey from the plateau north of the summit of Hoove.
Heather moorland on north side of Hazel Bush Hill Hazel Bush Hill is an insignificant eminence of heather moorland to the east of the minor rise of Citron Seat; land on the north side of the hill is seen here, the view being eastwards.
Heather moorland on north side of Hazel Bush Hill
Hazel Bush Hill is an insignificant eminence of heather moorland to the east of the minor rise of Citron Seat; land on the north side of the hill is seen here, the view being eastwards.
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Scargill is located at Grid Ref: NY9808 (Lat: 54.472996, Lng: -2.029686)

Division: North Riding

Unitary Authority: County Durham

Police Authority: Durham

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