"The escarpment of the Addingham Edge Grit - part of the Millstone
Grit series - makes a bold feature along the northern edge of
Rombalds Moor. The edge shows signs of
quarrying along most of its length, although who quarried the rock,
for what purpose and at what period, is not recorded excepting for
the millstone quarry known as Millstone Lumps"
Excerpt from
court records c.1780s "the former Lord of the Manor of Addingham
sold certaine shares of the commons to
the freeholders of Addingham reserving to himself several things
and amongst them the rest of 120 acres of common adjoining the
outlines of Silsden but did not reserve
the great stones therefore the freeholders let the millstone quarry
and applied the rent for the use of the poor"
taken
from "Addingham from Brigantes to
Bypass", a history by Kate Mason.
Sit on the bench
and enjoy the views (assuming its not raining horizontally as it
was when I placed the cache...)
I can see this
bench from our kitchen window, one of the houses just below the
fourth windmill on the right - Go on - give me a wave, you never
know, I may wave back !
The
cache would make up part of an excellent afternoon's walk over
Ilkley Moor. Suggest start at
Ilkley station,
then find these caches in
order:
Swastika Stone
For Their Tomorrow
Afraid of Sunlight
Where's Ilkley
Marbles
then
drop
down into Addingham for a pint at one of the five superb pubs or
tea and cakes at the Good Food Shop (if they’ve re-built it, it
collapsed in early 2009…). Then its
either a bus back to Ilkley, or
continue towards Ilkley following the
Wharfe river via the following
caches:
Somewhere Else
Key to the Dales Way
Start of the Dales Way
Riverside Roam
Full
circuit should take four hours or so depending on length of stops,
less if you catch the bus. A lovely day out from Leeds without
needing the car...