Hold Caldron Mill

Hold Caldron Mill is a historic building in Nawton, North Yorkshire, a village in England. A watermill was located at this location on the Hodge Beck in the 17th century, but it burned down in 1704. It was rebuilt in 1734 by Matthew Foord, the date inscribed on a stone in the current cornmill. Another datestone reading 1784 was removed from the site, while the current mill and attached house were built in the early 19th century. They were originally separate, and the house was later extended, to adjoin the mill. The mill stopped operating in 1920, its last miller being the uncle of Herbert Read, who used it as inspiration for the mill in his novel, The Green Child. The building was grade II listed in 2004. The mill and house are built of stone, with quoins, a pantile roof, and two storeys and attics. The house has four bays and a double depth plan, and contains two doorways with fanlights, and small-pane casement windows. The mill also has four bays, and contains doorways, a loading door, shuttered windows, and a re-set datestone. Inside the mill is a 15 feet (4.6 m) waterwheel, and machinery reaching to the roof.

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Kirkdale, North Yorkshire

Kirkdale ("church valley") is a valley in North Yorkshire, England, which along with Sleightholmedale makes up the larger Bransdale and carries the Hodge Beck from its moorland source near Cockayne to the River Dove and onto the River Rye in the Vale of Pickering. Corallian Limestone which outcrops on the hills surrounding the Vale of Pickering runs across the region, and this appears as an aquifer in Kirkdale swallowing most of the water from Hodge Beck, which reappears further downstream. During summer months the river bed often runs dry as most of the water takes a subterranean passage. Kirkdale is noted for a bone cave, an ancient animal den, into which scavengers such as hyenas dragged the remains of many other animals. Numerous bones can still be found in the cave today.

St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale

St Gregory's Minster is an Anglo-Saxon church with a rare sundial, in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside, Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The minster was built c. 1060 on the site of an earlier church, and is dedicated to St Gregory, who was pope from 590 to 604. Major modifications were completed in the 15th century and in the 1800s. The church was restored during 1907–1909. The building is similar in style and age to that of St Hilda's, Ellerburn. The church is open during the day; volunteer stewards provide information to visitors and services are offered weekly. The maintenance of the fabric of the building is helped by financial contributions from The Friends of St Gregory's Minster. The Friends' Annual General Meeting is followed by the Kirkdale Lecture about the parish and its environs.

Kirkdale sundial

The ancient canonical sundial at St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale in North Yorkshire, England, near Kirkbymoorside, dates to the mid 11th century. The panel containing the actual sundial above the church doors is flanked by two panels, bearing a rare inscription in Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxons. The sundial, discovered during a renovation in 1771, commemorates the rebuilding of the ruined church, about the year 1055, by Orm, son of Gamal, whose Scandinavian names suggest that he may have been a descendant of Vikings who overran and settled this region in the late 9th century.

Kirkdale Cave

Kirkdale Cave is a cave and fossil site located in Kirkdale near Kirkbymoorside in the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. It was discovered by workmen in 1821, and found to contain fossilized bones of a variety of mammals from the Eemian interglacial (globally known as the Last Interglacial, ~130-115,000 years ago), when temperatures were comparable to contemporary times, including animals currently absent from Britain or globally extinct, including hippopotamuses (amongst the farthest north any such remains have been found), straight-tusked elephants, the narrow-nosed rhinoceros, and cave hyenas. William Buckland analyzed the cave and its contents in December 1821 and determined that the bones were the remains of animals brought in by hyenas who used it for a den, and not a result of the Biblical flood floating corpses in from distant lands, as he had first thought. His reconstruction of an ancient ecosystem from detailed analysis of fossil evidence was admired at the time, and considered to be an example of how geo-historical research should be done. The cave was extended from its original length of 175 metres (574 ft) to 436 metres (1,430 ft) by Scarborough Caving Club in 1995. A survey was published in Descent magazine.