Gateway to God’s Country – Great Fryupdale Traditional Cache
Gateway to God’s Country – Great Fryupdale
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The cache is located at the entrance to the beautiful Great Fryupdale in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park – God’s Country. Roadside parking about 50m from cache site.
The marker stone has an interesting history behind it. Gates were erected because no fields were fenced in therefore animals could roam, the gates helped to keep them in their own area. They were removed when milk wagons needed to get around the dale to collect the milk.
The gates were removed in 1936 and a commerative stone erected at the entrance to Great Fryupdale, just before Fryup End Farm:
1936
Six gates in next mile a
nuisance proved.
Helped by kind donors,
tenants and owners had
them removed.
Use well time saved.
Great Fryupdale is considered one of the most beautiful dales in the North Yorkshire Moors and it is surprisingly quiet and unspoilt. There are plenty of rights of way in the dale and breathtaking views can be guaranteed. In its history Great Fryupdale has been a Jurassic sea populated by dinosaurs, an Ice Age lake, a Bronze Age swamp, a site of medieval mining and Victorian iron foundries. No one is quite sure from where the name ‘Fryupdale’ originates. One of the most popular theories is that the Norsemen named it after their favourite goddess, Freya. Also Fryup Dales were referred to in old records as the “forest of Fryca”; it was a favourite hunting ground for the Lords of the Manor. “Fryca” probably derives from the Norse name; became Frycoe then Fryop before Fryup.
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