A substantial set of lime kilns can be found near Rock Cottage / Rooker House at Pickering. Limestone from the nearby quarry would have been heated here to make quicklime.
Pickering Quarries, Lime Kilns
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Show on map Kirkbymoorside Market Cross
Kirkbymoorside’s Market Cross is unusually one street behind the main market place.
Nothing remains or anything that may have one stood on top.
It’s listed building entry gives little information other than its probably 17th century and made of sandstone
Mount Snever Observatory
Show on map I’m sure i’ll get told off for it not being in Teesside, but its a short drive and its interesting !
Mount Snever Observatory was built for John Wormald of Oldstead Hall in 1837/38 to celebrate the coronation of Queen Victoria.
It stands around 40ft tall and is currently locked and inaccessible.
One plaque features a modified version of lines from Windsor Forest by Alexander Pope.
‘Here hills and waving groves a scene display
And part admit and part exclude the day
See rich industry smiling on the plains
And peace and plenty tell VICTORIA reigns!
Happy the MAN who to these shades retires
Whom NATURE charms and whom the muse inspires
Who wandering thoughtful in this silent wood
Attends the duties of the wise and good
To observe a mean, be to himself a friend
To follow NATURE and regard his end.’
‘John Wormald In the first year of the reign of Queen Victoria caused this observatory to be erected. J Dodds Builder’
John Buntings War Memorial Chapel, Scotch Corner
Show on map Not the Scotch Corner on the A66 but a hill near Sutton Bank, but either way after over 10 years of Hidden Teesside I have finally added a new category to the site called ‘Yes I know its not in Teesside’ to cover things that may be a short drive away.
This chapel was built by sculptor John Bunting as a memorial for those killed in the Second World War, he acquired the derelict farm buildings in 1956 and completed the rebuild in 1957.
It specifically commemorates three people all educated at Ampleforth College
Hugh Dormer, killed during the battle of Europe in 1944
Michael Fenwick, a poet killed in 1941 at Kowloon.
Michael Allmand, who was killed in Europe in 1944 and received the Victoria Cross
The chapel will next be open to the public on: Saturday 15th April 2017; Sunday 9th July 2017; Saturday September 9th 2017 and there is a huge amount of information available at http://www.johnbunting.co.uk/memorial.html
