Photos by Am Bodach: on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Been up there many times. Followed by a pint or two in one (or both) of the Aptrick pubs.

My favourite area in hte Dales. Been going there for forty years.

Thats a nice picture. I am going to climb there tomorrow ;).

This photo was taken just before sunset on 16/3/2008, looking west. The roof visible left of centre is the derelict hydro-electric power station on Linton Lock island. The roof with 3 chimney stacks to the right is Linton Lock house.

This picture shows the River Ouse going down stream from Nun Monkton and heading towards York. On the left is the public footpath that skirts Beninborough Hall that eventually leads back to Newton-on-Ouse. It is a very long walk I can assure you that to attempt it one should be very fit.

This shows the junction of the River Nidd and the River Ouse. To the right of the tall fir tree is the public footpath where one could walk into village. This was very popular with the Canadian airmen that lived in Beninborough Hall during wartime as they used the fery boat to get them to the Alice Hawthorn pub. The airmen even laid a telephone system to the pub so that they could be recalled if a bombing mission was to be mounted.

This is the start of the public footpath that follows the boundary of Beningborough Hall. The total length is around 3 miles. It passes Nun Monkton Ferry where in the 1930's one could shout for a boatman to row you across the river to Nun Monkton. The small trees pictured to the right were planted only recently.

This view shows the Lodge Gate that leads to Beningborough Hall. The trees shown here were not present when I lived at Newton from 1930 to 1950. The lodge keeper was Harry Rodwell who lived during the day in the right-hand part of the lodge gate but slept in the left-hand part. There was no electricity in the lodge so he had to use candles. It was a strange sight to see him in his nightclothes crossing from right to left with a candle in his hand.

I know this view very well as it was where I used to swim in the late 1930's. The River Kyle joined the Ouse at left of the picture. It is not adviseable to swim anywhere in the Ouse today because of polution.

The distant hill, rising above the low-level mist, is Pendle Hill near Clitheroe. This can be verified by use of the perspective view in GoogleEarth.

Thanks for the comment. I was using a 300mm (equivalent) lens. The birds kept coming back in spite of a poodle that kept chasing them. The pickings must have been good.