Show on map Trough House is currently used a shooting hut.
But aerial photographs reveal the whole are is dotted with coal workings known as High Moor Colliery, and it may have originally related to those.
The stone over the door carries the date 1801
Show on map Botton Cross is a a wayside cross on Danby High Moor. Although now broken it is an early medieval wheelhead type.
The cross is on the course of an old road which runs from Young Ralph toward Fat Betty.
Show on map Gillamoor Sundial was erected August 27th 1800 by John Russell.
The lower cylinder is inscribed “ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION”.
Sloped cap of cylinder carries a Time Equation table.
Cube has east and west meridian dials carved on east and west faces, and north and south vertical direct dials to north and south faces.North face also inscribed with name and date: “J Russell Sculpit, August 27th, AD MDCCC”.
Show on map Chequers was a drovers inn, where a turf fire is said to have burned constantly for 200 years.
The sign was lost in 1965 but replaced in 1984
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“Be not in haste, step in and taste, ale tomorrow for nothing.â€
Show on map Lime kilns were used to produce fertilizer before more modern developed
Limestone was burnt with wood or coal to produce quicklime.
Small local kilns like this would have been a common sight, a small quarry exists to the north.
