Fat Betty

The start of a very busy week. On the agenda today the return of our youngest son to Newcastle University.

Not much time to hunt for a blip so a short detour on the way home to take this shot.

The medieval cross known as Fat Betty or White Cross stands beside a trackway on Danby High Moor at the head of the Rosedale Valley to the east of Rosedale Head. It has acted as a wayside cross/marker stone for hundreds of years for travellers going between Rosedale and Westerdale. But it is easy to become lost on these windswept moors and so these crosses and waymarkers would have been a great help to pilgrims and others traversing the North York Moors from medievals times.

The Tour of Yorkshire in May will be passing this way next month.