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The Yorkshire Moors

Discover the well-kept secrets of the North York Moors in this idyllic amateur travelogue.

Amateur film 1950 9 mins Silent

Overview

A nature lover's paradise lays in wait for a mother and daughter enjoying a day's excursion on the North York Moors. This idyllic amateur film shows the landscape at its late-summer best, in sun-drenched purples and greens. Among the bell-heather and whortleberries, the moors reveal their well-kept secrets: ancient burial grounds, wandering becks, the timeless moorland village of Castleton, Beggar's Bridge at Glaisdale, the well-trodden Roman Road at Wheeldale Moor and, nestled between the moors and the North Sea, the red roofs and fishing boats of Whitby.

The North York Moors became a national park in 1952 - two years after this film was shot - and is one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the country.

Genres

Amateur film and Travelogue

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Wheeldale MoorMauley CrossGlaisdaleCastletonWhitby

Language

No Dialogue with English subtitles

Subjects

North York Moors

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