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Will Swales

@willswales2

Amateur historian focusing on the stories and place-names of Swaledale

 York, England
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The Old School website now has a page featuring Kisdon Landscapes. You can view it at theoldschoolmuker.co.uk/kisd…. It's my first book, collecting together photographs taking over the last six years, and hopefully doing the place justice. #Swaledale #YorkshireDales.
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How Feetham preserves a form of Old English grammar willswales2.wordpress.com/fe…
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A story of remarkable endurance and determination - willswales1.wordpress.com/a-…
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I popped down to the Photography Exhibition at Hudson House, Reeth, today, part of the YDNP Swaledale Farming Film & Photography Festival. Some great work on display! It's on until the 21st June, before moving to The Station, Richmond. @yorkshire_dales #Swaledale #YorkshireDales
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In just a couple of short weeks Muker's wildflower meadows will be in full bloom. If you're thinking of visiting with a camera there's an updated guide to photographing the meadows at: richardwallsphotography.com/… #Swaledale #YorkshireDales
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Stephen@spe_ny16 Apr 2023
4th underground water wheel found in the UK and the oldest. See video youtube.com/watch?v=uwjOsbPK…
You WONT Believe what we found deeper in LOST MINE! The best find ever!

You WONT Believe what we found deeper in LOST MINE! The best find ever!

Some great finds taking friends on an exploration! Great find under...

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T8 excavation finds had Beverley going "Wow!" today. Some members also visited Scots Dyke where Professor Tom Moore showed us around their very interesting dig.
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Swaledale manors and the Smith family – correcting the Victoria County History willswales1.wordpress.com/20…
Swaledale manors and the Smith family – correcting the Victoria County History

Swaledale manors and the Smith family – correcting the Victoria County History

A frequently repeated and succinct account of the history of the united lordship of the manors of Healaugh and Muker in Swaledale can now be shown to be seriously wrong. It is found in the highly r…

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Broderick of Summer Lodge willswales1.wordpress.com/20…
Broderick of Summer Lodge

Broderick of Summer Lodge

A new essay by leading name scholar Peter McClure argues compellingly that the English surname Broderick originated with the well-known Swaledale family of that name, and not, as previously suggest…

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Stephen@spe_ny31 Mar 2021
50cm DSM Lidar of the Battle of Fulford (1066) site showing its low lying nature either side of the River Ouse, and the Germany Beck entering from the top right.
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Surrender Bridge is not the site of a military capitulation willswales2.wordpress.com/20…
Surrender Bridge is not the site of a military capitulation

Surrender Bridge is not the site of a military capitulation

Surrender Bridge in Swaledale There is a myth in Swaledale that Surrender Bridge, on the lonely moor road between Feetham and Arkengarthdale, is so named because it is the site of some long-forgott…

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Don't forget to make a note in your calendar - Dales Archaeology Day 2021 will be held online on Saturday 2nd October. More details soon! #DalesAD2021
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A field called Trews was a haunt of devilish goblins willswales2.wordpress.com/20…

A field called Trews was a haunt of devilish goblins

Footpath crossing Trews with its unusual rocky mound on the downward slope. A review of a curious field in Gunnerside Gill, recorded in 1844 as Trews, has shown that its strange name probably refer…

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Best-selling author’s hope to update a story of Swaledale willswales1.wordpress.com/20…
Best-selling author’s hope to update a story of Swaledale

Best-selling author’s hope to update a story of Swaledale

A new book that includes aspects of Swaledale history, The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur, is just out (February 2021) by Max Adams, author of the best-selling The King in the North. A…

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Two of Swaledale’s lost places – an ancient dyke called Hodic and a Romano-British or early medieval settlement called Stainburghanes – have been located by this writer using a combination of place-name research, map studies and ground observations. willswales2.wordpress.com/20…
Finding Hodic and Stainburghanes

Finding Hodic and Stainburghanes

The view southwards at Harkerside’s western dyke, running from bottom left to top right, and now identified as ‘the great fosse called Hodic’. (Photo Author) Two of Swaledale’s lost places – an anc…

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Finding Hodic and Stainburghanes - Two of Swaledale’s lost places – an ancient dyke called Hodic and a Romano-British settlement and possible burial site called Stainburghanes – have been located by this writer. willswales1.wordpress.com/20…
Finding Hodic and Stainburghanes

Finding Hodic and Stainburghanes

The ancient dyke called Hodic, viewed from its southern end near Dyke House Two of Swaledale’s lost places – an ancient dyke called Hodic and a Romano-British settlement and possible burial site ca…

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Grinton-Fremington Dykes: Names, Places and Spaces willswales2.wordpress.com/20…
Grinton-Fremington Dykes: Names, Places and Spaces

Grinton-Fremington Dykes: Names, Places and Spaces

A new article I have written about the Grinton-Fremington Dykes in Swaledale has just been published online by the peer-reviewed landscape archaeology journal Landscapes.

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Stephen@spe_ny1 Jul 2020
SWAAG (swaag.org) have just completed digitising Book V of the Healaugh & Muker Manor Court Books. See: swaag.org/H&M-MCB-Books.html A great job by the SWAAG Local History Sub-group. A great searchable resource in the heart of Swaledale.
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Two Bronze Age axe-heads found in Swaledale in the 1700s and then hidden in storage for more than 200 years can now be viewed as photographs on the British Museum’s online catalogue. Full story willswales1.wordpress.com/fr….
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