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Dist:0.3km<br/>
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.3km<br/>A very secluded site in an offshoot of Fore Gill.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.3km<br/>Arkle Town is seen in the middle distance with Langthwaite and Upper Arkengarthdale beyond.
©Peter Standing
Dist:0.4km<br/>There two main types of mole trap available on the British market, the scissor trap and the tunnel trap (also known as the half tunnel or Duffus Trap, after it's inventor). The trap in the image is marked by a small flag.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The house and buildings are known as Raw Bank House. There is an Ordnance Survey bench mark on the west angle of the building.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The road up Arkengarthdale crosses a cattle grid on a bend and descends steeply into Langthwaite, the hill being called Raw Bank. Logically enough, the farmhouse at the top of the hill is Raw bank House, which faces up the hill towards the road. This view is the back of the house, overlooking Fore Gill and Arkle Town, but with few windows this side, since this faces the prevailing wind.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.4km<br/>The bench mark is to be found on the west angle of the building. For a view of the building [[2399002]] and for further information on the bench mark and others in the area http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm37866
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>Standing atop a pretty little dry valley.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.4km<br/>Beside the Tan Hill Inn road.
©Steve Partridge
Dist:0.5km<br/>A steep sided valley on the SW side of Arkengarthdale. Signs of tree regeneration on the far side of the valley due to fencing to keep out the sheep.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.5km<br/>This photograph shows a view of some terraced cottages in Calva View in the small village of Arkle Town. The minor road that runs between Reeth (behind the photographer) and Tan Hill (ahead) can be seen in the left-hand side of the image. The picture was taken looking in a north-north-westerly direction towards Langthwaite.
©Philip Barker
Dist:0.5km<br/>Arkle Town.
©Matthew Hatton
Dist:0.5km<br/>Tractors in varying states of decay reside to the rear of a farmhouse in Arkle Town.
©Matthew Hatton
Dist:0.6km<br/>Drystone walls are built without mortar, and their stability – they can stand for 200 years – is due to the skill of the craftsmen who place rough boulders and angular stones together. Many drystone walls were constructed as part of the enclosure of open grazing. They were especially useful in areas too exposed for hedgerows to survive and where stones were readily available. Most drystone walls are wider at the base than at the crown, and are often capped with coping stones. A typical wall has two outer layers of large, flattish stones enclosing an inner ‘heart’ of smaller, rounder stones. Often it is reinforced with ‘through bands’ of even larger, flat stones which can also be used as stiles. The very dryness of a wall makes it more likely to endure wind and frost and to act as shelter for livestock as well as a boundary.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>One of the last gravestones placed here, and still in remarkable condition for a slab that is 199 years old.
©Matthew Hatton

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