DATE(s) | TIME | LOCATION | ACTIVITY | DETAILS | CONTACT |
15-02-2025 | 9:45 am for 10:00 am | Meet at the large layby at the junction of the Grinton / Leyburn and Grinton / Redmire Roads SE 0459 9778 | Guided walk: Mining on and around Grinton Moor Lead by Alan Mills | We will visit bales sites, hushes, Grinton Smelt Mill and associated water management - dams, leats - Grinton How level and Ridley Hush and dam. Possibly California Level, Lime Kilns and Sow Kilns depending on time and ground conditions.
3 hours or so, bring a warm drink and snack; some up and down, rough terrain so a walking stick / pole useful, but nothing particularly difficult. | Anne Jowett - swaagwalks@gmail.com | 11-03-2025 | 7:30 pm | ZOOM Meeting olny | Talk by Jane Harrison | Jane Harrison will talk about the geology, history and archaeology of copper mining around Richmond and Middleton Tyas. | info@swaag.org | 05-04-2025 | TBA | Maersk Car Park below the church | Visit to Dickie Edge - Dark Age Settlement. Walk Leader - Rod Flint | Meet at Maersk Car Park, Car share to Cordilleras Farm. Walk of approx 3 miles visiting multiple locations of dwellings and enclosures. | Anne - swaagwalks@gmail.com | 08-04-2025 | 7:30 pm | ZOOM only | Group Meeting | 'Looking for Arthur, finding Arthwys’. By local author and historian, Alistair Hall. Alistair's book, ’The Battle of Mount Badon - Ambrosius, Arthur and the defence of Britain’, published in 2019 was a meticulously researched study that places a very Northern emphasis on key moments of post-Roman Britain’s history. In this evening’s talk Alistair will bring us up to date with his research - it is more analysis than speculation. | info@swaag.org | 08-04-2025 | 7:30 pm | ZOOM only | Group Meeting | 'Looking for Arthur, finding Arthwys’. By local author and historian, Alistair Hall. Alistair's book, ’The Battle of Mount Badon - Ambrosius, Arthur and the defence of Britain’, published in 2019 was a meticulously researched study that places a very Northern emphasis on key moments of post-Roman Britain’s history. In this evening’s talk Alistair will bring us up to date with his research - it is more analysis than speculation. | info@swaag.org |