The Lime and Ice project was created in 2008 and creates opportunities for people to learn about, explore and enjoy the landscape heritage of the south-west corner of the North York Moors National Park and the northern part of the adjoining Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Please visit the new exhibition at the National Park Visitor Center at Sutton Bank ,for more information.
After passing the cache and towards the summit of Hood Hill , the crater in the left is the site of the Sabre Xd733 that crashed here in September 1954 killing pilot F/O Colin Graham age 23 .
AT 9.15pm on Tuesday, September 21, 1954, Flying Officer Colin “Snatch” Grabham was returning to RAF Linton-on-Ouse after a high-altitude night cross-country training flight in a F4 Sabre jet plane.
An hour after take-off, the 23-year-old pilot radioed the 92 Squadron air base to say he was nearby and was given several vectors to steer.
A few minutes later he was contacted by Linton Control Tower to say he was over the airfield. This signal was acknowledged.
Just over two minutes later, the aircraft crashed at a near vertical angle of descent into a massive rock on Hood Hill, near Sutton Bank, and 11 miles north of Linton-on-Ouse. Fg Off Grabham, of Dover, was killed instantly.
Farmers in their homes more than a mile away from Hood Hill saw a vivid flash and heard a bang when the jet hit the rock.
“Everything was lit up by a very bright light”, said Jack Ward, of Kilburn, days after the incident.
Please be aware it is an offence under the Protection of Military Remains to disturb this site, do not enter or disturb the crater.