My Only Love
“Margrove Bluff, a long gray claw of sheer flint that thrust itself above the meandering river Ure, was the highest point on the Colsterdale Moor. Grooved into the surrounding hillside were the remnants of hushes produced hundreds of years ago as early miners dammed streams in order to uncover veins of lead. That had been the ancient way, of course, before shafts and levels— before the miners gave up hope of discovering ore riches in the vicinity and moved off to Gunnerside Gill.
The centuries a...nd weather hadn't totally decimated the relics of those days, however, because scattered over the surrounding hills and dales were the debris of stone ruins and heaps of tippings. Folk in the area swore that on cold winter nights they could hear the ghosts of miners singing—as the men always did when they trooped to and from their dangerous job.
From the bluff's peak one could see all the way to Middleham on a clear day, across the wild country, the empty rolling miles of browns and greens and yellows.MoreLess
The centuries a...nd weather hadn't totally decimated the relics of those days, however, because scattered over the surrounding hills and dales were the debris of stone ruins and heaps of tippings. Folk in the area swore that on cold winter nights they could hear the ghosts of miners singing—as the men always did when they trooped to and from their dangerous job.
From the bluff's peak one could see all the way to Middleham on a clear day, across the wild country, the empty rolling miles of browns and greens and yellows.MoreLess
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