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ENGLAND’S HIGHEST LAKE, MALHAM TARN – WHERE KINGSLEY’S ‘WATER BABIES’ WERE BORN

By on January 10, 2013 in Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Cove, Dales, evolution, Jessie Willcox Smith, Malham, National Trust, NT, Tarn, The Water Babies, Yorkshire

Malham Tarn is a heart-shaped glacial lake formed about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age. It lies high above the craggy Malham Cove, near Malham village, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The Tarn lies 377 metres (1,237 ft) above sea level, making it the highest lake in England, and [...]

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APOCALYPSE POSTPONED AGAIN – SO WE CAN WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

By on December 31, 2012 in Dales, Malham, Malham Cove, Malham Tarn, New Year 2013, Skipton, Wantage, White Horse Hill, Yorkshire

The English Eye wishes you a peaceful and prosperous New Year 2013. New Year’s Day should see the TEE cameras hauled on a long stomp around White Horse Hill, near Wantage, Berkshire, followed by a pub lunch with other keen walkers. There’ll be a photo report on that, especially if the weather is kind and [...]

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DAVID HOCKNEY – ENGLISH MASTER ARTIST, ON SHOW AT SALTS MILL, YORKSHIRE

By on October 30, 2012 in 1853 Gallery, Bradford, David Hockney, Jonathan Silver, Saltaire, Salts Mill, Titus Salt, UNESCO, Yorkshire

If you’re an art fan, a trip to Yorkshire has to include the vast Salts Mill, a rambling Victorian pile near Bradford, opened on local industrialist Titus Salt’s 50th birthday in 1853. I’ll be looking closer at Titus and his works soon, but right now I’m concentrating on the mill’s 1853 Gallery, where you can see [...]

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MALHAM COVE – A YORKSHIRE BEAUTY MADE BY A HORSE WITH EIGHT LEGS

By on October 25, 2012 in Dales, Ice Age, J.M.W.Turner, Malham, Malham Cove, National Trust, Odin, Sleipnir, Tate Britain, Turner Contemporary, Yorkshire

Well, that’s one legend anyway – apparently the Norse god Odin was riding his horse Sleipnir, when one of the giant beast’s hooves caught on the rocks, creating the horseshoe-shaped cove that’s the pride of Malham village . A more scientific explanation is that Malham Cove was formed at the end of the last Ice [...]

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