RAF Fylingdales

Royal Air Force Fylingdales (RAF Fylingdales) is a Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its motto is Vigilamus ("We are watching"). It is a radar base, former part of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), and now part of the Solid State Phased Array Radar System (SSPARS). As part of intelligence-sharing arrangements between the United States and United Kingdom (see, for example, the UKUSA Agreement), data collected at RAF Fylingdales are shared between the two countries. Its primary purpose is to give the British and US governments warning of an impending ballistic missile attack (part of the so-called four minute warning during the Cold War). A secondary role is the detection and tracking of orbiting objects; Fylingdales is part of the United States Space Surveillance Network. As well as its early-warning and space-tracking roles, Fylingdales has a third function – the Satellite Warning Service for the UK. It keeps track of spy satellites used by other countries, so that secret activities in the UK can be carried out when they are not overhead. The armed services, defence manufacturers and research organisations, including universities, take advantage of this facility.

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May Moss (bog)

May Moss is a peat bog in the North York Moors National Park, in North Yorkshire, England. The bog is 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) east of the old Saltersgate Inn at a height of 253 metres (830 ft) above sea level, and is the watershed where water feeds Eller Beck to the north, and the River Derwent to the south. The site was a declared an SSSI in June 1983, but was subsumed into the larger North York Moors SSSI in 1998.

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Langdale Moor wildfire

The Langdale Moor wildfire started on the evening of 11 August 2025, on Langdale Moor near RAF Fylingdales in North Yorkshire, England. The fire continued to spread over the following days, with resources for fighting the fire pulled in from across the county and with support from neighbouring fire and rescue services. Smoke has been detected up to 130 kilometres (80 mi) from the moors.

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Newton Dale

Newton Dale, or Newtondale, is a narrow dale within the North York Moors National Park in North Yorkshire, England. It was created by meltwater from a glacier carving the narrow valley. Water still flows through the dale and is known as Pickering Beck. The dale starts between Goathland Moor and Lockton High Moor where water runs southwards towards Pickering. In its upper reaches, the dale is very twisting and deep with the floor of the dale being 490 feet (150 m) above sea level.

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Saltersgate Inn

The Saltersgate Inn (also known as the Legendary Saltersgate Inn) is a closed public house at Lockton High Moor on the A169 road between Pickering and Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The pub was notable for having a fire that was never allowed to burn out, as a legend stated that if it did, the devil would spring forth from the flames. The structure was built c. 1648 and converted into a pub in the 18th century; it closed in 2007 and the building was demolished in 2018.

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