The breathtaking scenery of the North York Moors has long been known, now a new trail is taking visitors on a route between five churches in quaint villages, writes Harriet Sutton.
St Michael’s at Cold Kirby is one of the newest of the five, having been built in 1841. It stands close to an old drovers’ road that William the Conqueror’s army used before it became a main route for Scottish cattle traders driving their stock to market in Malton. The area was also home to an 18th-century racecourse called ‘the Newmarket of the north’.
St John’s in Bilsdale, built in the 1890s by the Earl of Feversham, serves a dale that was so remote that it didn’t even get its first road until the 1930s. The church never served a large population and was mooted for closure as far back as the 1970s before it was merged with others. All Saints at Old Byland has Saxon and Norman features, though its exact age has not been established. The village was part of the Newburgh Priory estate until the Wombwell family sold the whole place off in 1922 – farms, a pub, a school and the blacksmith’s forge were all disposed of.
St Mary’s at Scawton was built in the 12th century by the Cistercian monks 30 years before Byland Abbey.
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