Thursday 17 May 2018

Fryup Heads


This is always a fascinating place but not as easy as you might hope to photograph effectively.
The low evening sunlight helped and it's a drone shot - but could probably have almost got the same by walking further down from the road.
The video reveals at least three significant ponds but they may not be always full.

The confusing hillocks in various sizes are practically all the result of a long series of landslides dating back to the last ice age.
At that time the Esk Valley including Fryup was for a while a substantial lake due to the North Sea being filled with an immense ice sheet.

Water got away to the south through NewtonDale and probably to the north past Comondale and West House at different periods.





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