Memorial Stones    (In alphabetical order)

MITCHELL ATKINSON

Grid Ref. 594018

Stone shelter with a metal plaque.

ERECTED BY FRIENDS

TO THE MEMORY OF

MITCHELL ATKINSON

A LOVER OF WILD PLACES

DIED APRIL 1972

R.I.P.

HULL
G BAKER

Grid Ref. 883968

G. BAKER. Was lost in a snowstorm on 5. 12.1878. and was found 26. 1.1879. He was 68 years old and for several years was sexton at Goathland and the village tailor. On 5th. Dec. 1878 he was having tea at Half Way House when Francis Calvert brought news that he was needed at home to dig the grave of a Mrs. McEacharn. The two started the 10 mile journey back to Goathland at 6 30, despite the poor weather.They stopped at Littlebeck at 8pm, and, as the weather had improved, they re- started their journey at 10pm, having spent some time drinking whisky. Having only gone 200 yards, Baker decided to turn back, complaining of pains in his legs. Calvert returned home and assumed Baker was safe. Eventually parties set out to find Baker and his body was not found until 26th. Jan. 1879, when two brothers, Pennock and Readman Sleightolm found it near the Wykeham shooting house on the moor of Mr. Lloyd. It was strange that Baker had strayed from the road which was well fenced. The body was in a good state and a piece of snow, wedged between the legs below the knees, had an imprint suggesting that one of the searchers had walked across it. Some 50 people collected to carry the body back to Goathland,working in relays to carry it on a board. The ling was set on fire to mark the route and the slow torch - lit procession was a sight never to be forgotten by those involved. They arrived at 8. 30 and placed the body in the church. A verdict of death from exposure to the inclemency of the weather was passed at the inquest, where it was also noted that, in leaving Baker, Calvert was deserving censure. .

G. BAKER AGED 68 YEARS.

IN MEMOR G.B. WHO WAS LOST ON THE 5 OF

DECEM 1878

AND WAS FOUND HEAR ON THE 26 OF JANUARY
BONNIE

Grid Ref. 826994

bonnie

1983 1995
JOHN BOOTH

Grid Ref. 798980

JOHN BOOTH. Who died on this spot Sept. 5th 1853 aged 84. He was gamekeeper to Richard Hill Esq. for 56 years.l

(Defaced with bullet holes ).
DANNY BOWES

Grid Ref. 700092

IN MEMORY OF DANNY BOWES 1994

DRY STONE WALLER

Danny was a 25 year old from Danby, a well - known local cricketer. He died when his car was swept off the flooded concrete causeway alongside Duck Bridge, on the night of 23rd. May,1994.
JONAS BROWN

Grid Ref. 887040

OBELISK COMMEMORATING JONAS BROWN

(INSCRIPTION)

(TRANSLATION)

OUT DAT ADVAS. SAXO LATET HOSPITA NYMPHA SUB IMO, SIC TU CUM DEDERES DONA LATERE YELIS NESCIAT SINISTRA QUID DEXTRA PORRIGATSIST WATOR TELLUS CERCUMIACEN NATURA PRETER SOLITUM DEFORMIS FUIT RELICTA PRAERUPTIS RUPIBUS. NECNON ETERICIS DURIS  RUBETIS. FILICEQUE PENE INEXTIROABILI UNDIQUE OBSITA : HODIE VERO (QUANTA MU TATIO !) EAM ARATRO DOMITAM. IN FRUGIFERIS ARVIS. AUT HERBOSIS PASCUIS AUT HORTIS IUCUNDISSIMIS. UBI PLURIMUM ET VOLUPTATIS ET SALUTIS DISPOSITAM VIDES. QUES FUERIT ROGAS. QUI TANTAM IN DUXIT MU TA TONEM ? IONAS BROWNE. VIR STRENUUS, ET REBUS AGENDIS NATUS: QUI POSTQUAM EVISSET DIVERSIS NEGOTHS DIU MULTUMQUE OCCUPATIS. SEDEM HUIC MONIMENTO VICINAM SENIO PARAVIT, NON UT OTTO LANGUE SCERET. NON UT TORPERET VETERNO SEDUT IN EADEM PERFICIENDA. AT QUE ORNANDA, OPERIRUSQUE IUCUNDIS, SIMUL ET UTILIBUS INCUMER ENS CONSENECERET POSTQUAM LONGAM VITAM VILLITATI ENEVOLEN ......... ET PIETATI DELITAM 

...........................................IEREUM

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UNDER THE LOWEST ( PART OF THE ) STONE IS CONCEALED ..... SO YOU WHEN PRESENT  GIFT MAY WISH TO HIDE..... THE LEFT MAY NOT KNOW WHAT THE RIGHT IS DOING. THE LAND WHICH LIES AROUND WAS  LEFT BY NATURE EVEN MORE UNSIGHTLY THAN NORMAL, WITH  SHEER ROCKS, AS WELL AS HARD ......AND SURROUNDED ON ALL  SIDES WITH ALMOST IMMOVEABLE .  BUT TODAY (HOW GREAT A CHANGE) YOU SEE IT TAMED BY THE PLOUGH AND GIVEN OVER TO CROP- BEARING FIELDS, OR GRASSY MEADOWS  OR ATTRACTIVE GARDENS WITH CONSIDERABLE PLEASURE AND SAFETY. WHO WAS IT, YOU ASK,  WHO BROUGHT ABOUT SO GREAT A  CHANGE? JONAS BROWNE! AN  ENERGETIC MAN AND ONE BORN TO  ACHIEVE THINGS, WHO AFTER HE HAD  LONG OCCUPIED IN VARIOUS ROLES,  PREPARED THE SEAT NEXT TO THIS  MONUMENT, NOT IN ORDER TO LANGUISH AT EASE, NOR TO  IDLE AWAY HIS OLD AGE, BUT  IN COMPLETING AND DECORATING  THIS SAME THING, PLEASANT AND AT THE SAME TIME USEFUL ACTIVITIES HE MIGHT GROW OLD. AFTER HE .. HIS .. LONG LIFE .....BENEVOLENT ..... AND GIVEN OVER TO GOODNESS .......XXX11.
JOHN CALVERT

Grid Ref. 848993

  ON THIS SPOT

JOHN CALVERT OF GOATHLAND

FELL ASLEEP

18th JUNE 1907 AGED 77

John was a roadman and had been at work on the Whitby - Pickering road, spreading whinstone. His body was not found until the following day. He regularly tended the greens at Goathland Golf Club.
ALAN CLEGG

Grid Ref. 638067
ALAN CLEGG 1936 - 1981 who loved these moors.

ALF COCKERILL & ROBBIE LEGGOTT

Grid Ref. 645119

  FOR

REMEMBRANCE

GUARDSMEN 

ROBBIE LEGGOTT 

KILLED IN ACTION 

1916 

ALF COCKERILL

DIED OF WOUNDS

1919

DUTY 1914

 

 Two Guisborough Estate workers killed in the First World War.
H COLING

Grid Ref. 738104
H. COLING Perished here January 27th 1848.
CAPTAIN COOK

Grid Ref. 590101

IN MEMORY OF

THE CELEBRATED CIRCUMNAVIGATOR

CAPT. JAMES COOK F. R. S.

A MAN IN NAUTICAL KNOWLEDGE INFERIOR TO NONE

IN ZEAL, PRUDECE AND ENERGY SUPERIOR TO MOST.

REGARDLESS OF DANGER HE OPENED AN INTERCOURSE

WITH THE FRIENDLY ISLES AND OTHER PARTS

OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.

HE WAS BORN AT MARTON OCT.27TH 1728

AND MASSACRED AT OWYHEE FEB. 14TH. 1779

TO THE INEXPRESSIBLE GRIEF OF HIS COUNTRYMEN.

WHILE THE ART OF NAVIGATION SHALL BE CULTIVATED

AMONG MEN, WHILE THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE,

COMMERCE,AND PHILANTHROPY SHALL ANIMATE

THE SONS OF BRITAIN, WHILE IT SHALL BE DEEMED

THE HONOUR OF A CHRISTIAN NATION TO SPREAD

CIVILISATION AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE

CHRISTIAN FAITH AMONG PAGAN AND SAVAGE TRIBES,

SO LONG WILL THE NAME OF CAPT. COOK

STAND OUT AMONG THE MOST CELEBRATED AND

MOST ADMIRED BENEFACTORS OF THE HUMAN RACE.

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AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT FOR,

AND ADMIRATION OF THAT GREAT MAN

THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY

ROBERT CAMPION ESQ. OF WHITBY A. D. 1827.

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BY THE PERMISSION OF THE OWNERS OF THE EASBY ESTATE

J. J. EMERSON ESQ. IT WAS RESTORED IN 1895

BY THE READERS OF THE NORTH EASTERN DAILY GAZETTE.
CAPTAIN COOK

Grid Ref. 558106

JAMES COOK

WHO LIVED IN GREAT AYTON

BETWEEN 1736 AND 1745

CAPTAIN JAMES COOK R. N., F. R. S.

                            NAVIGATOR
BILL COWLEY

Grid Ref. 479006
 BILL COWLEY 1915 - 1994
BOBBY DOWSON

Grid Ref. 574935
 BOBBY DOWSON

JOHN DUNDAS &

JOHN LAWRENCE SMYTH

Grid Ref. 483001

Seat with plaques.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF

JOHN DUNDAS

D.F.C. AND BAR 609 (WR) SQDN A. A. F.

28TH NOVEMBER 1940

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF

JOHN LAWRENCE SMYTH

 KOHIMA

6TH MAY 1944
FRANK ELGEE

Grid Ref. 676019
FRANK ELGEE 1880 - 1944 NATURALIST AND ARCHAEOLOGIST
KF

Grid Ref. 808034

KF

     1929

Was erected by Jonh Kenneth Foster of Egton Manor to mark the crash of an aircraft on 23rd April 1917 at 12.05pm. The pilot was carried down to High Browes Farm on a farm gate but later died.
ALEC & ANNIE FALCONER

Grid Refs. 534034 & 030523
ALEC FALCONER 1884 -- 1968 RAMBLER

THESE TREES

WERE PLANTED IN

1970

AS A TRIBUTE

TO

ALEC AND ANNIE

FALCONER

WHO

LOVED THESE HILLS

COXWAIN HENRY FREEMAN

Grid Ref. 950051

 On the18th January 1881 the Brig

"VISITOR"

ran ashore in Robin Hood's Bay. No local boat could be launched on account of the violence of the storm, so the Whitby lifeboat was brought overland

past this point - a distance of 6 miles - through snowdrifts 7 feet deep on a

road rising to 500 feet., with 200 men clearing the way ahead and with

18 horses heaving at the tow lines, whilst men worked uphill towards them

from the Bay. The lifeboat was launched two hours after leaving Whitby

and at the second attempt, the crew of the Visitor were saved.

So that future generations may remember the bravery of Coxwain Henry

Freeman, and lifeboatmen, and the dogged determination of the people

of Whiitby, Hawsker, and Robin Hood's Bay, who overcame such difficulties,

this memorial was erected in 1981.

DONATED BY J. H. V. S. AND S. W.

(JOHN SUTCLIFFE OF GREAT BROUGHTON AND STANHOPE WHITE OF SCARBOROUGH )

 
FRED GARBUTT

Grid Ref. 973004

 FRED

FRED GARBUTT

BORN 8 / 2 / 47

DIED HERE 9 / 4 / 95

A GOOD FRIEND TO MANY

HE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED.
BILL GREEN

Grid Ref. 534034

 In Loving Memory Of

BILL GREEN

1929-1992

Beloved Husband Of JEAN A Devoted Father and Grandfather

Who Loved To Walk The Hills and Dales

"We Never Walk Alone"
JOAN HUTTON-WILSON

Grid Ref. 553989

 1968

Joan Hutton-Wilson

who loved Bilsdale
JENNY & WENDY

Grid Ref. 853949

R. I. P.

Wendy

Oct. 18. 1940

-------

Jenny

June 19. 1941

LOVED ONES SLEEPING
R L

Grid Ref. 671953
  R L

ROBBIE LEGGOTT & ALF COCKERILL

Grid Ref. 645119

  FOR

REMEMBRANCE

GUARDSMEN 

ROBBIE LEGGOTT 

KILLED IN ACTION 

1916 

ALF COCKERILL

DIED OF WOUNDS

1919

DUTY 1914

 

 Two Guisborough Estate workers killed in the First World War.
WILF MacKINDER

Grid Ref. 796176 

WILF'S WAY

IMPROVEMENTS TO THIS PUBLIC FOOTPATH WERE

DESIGNED AND INITIATED BY WILF MACKINDER

OF PORT MULGRAVE WHO DIED ON 25th. APRIL 1984

THE PLAQUE WAS ERECTED BY THE

NORTH YORK MOORS NATIONAL PARK COMMITTEE

IN HIS MEMORY AND AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS ENDEAVOUR.

 
MARGERY McDOUGAL

Grid Ref. 672952

  TO REMEMBER

MARGERY McDOUGAL

1885 -1972

AND HER COCERN FOR FARNDALE

RYEDALE C P BRANCH

R E
SYDNEY PORRITT

Grid Ref. 828021

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

SYDNEY PORRITT 

WHO WAS

ACCIDENTALLY

DROWNED. JUNE

24TH. 1908 AGED 16

(ON REAR)

1915

WP

 
NEV RIDGWAY

Grid Ref. 537029

 IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

NEV RIDGWAY

WHO SPENT MANY HAPPY HOURS

WALKING ON THESE MOORS

LOVED AND MISSED BY SO MANY.

(1938 - 1997 )
MAJOR DONALD L. SCHUYLER & LIEUTENANT THOMAS D. WHEELER

Grid Ref. 766080

 THIS STONE WAS PLACED BY THE PEOPLE OF LEALHOLM

IN MEMORY OF THE UNITED STATES AIRMEN

MAJOR DONALD L. SCHUYLER ( USAF)

AND

LIEUTENANT THOMAS D. WHEELER (USAF)

WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHEN THEIR

AIRCRAFT CRASHED HERE 24.4.79
SERVANT GIRL

Grid Ref. 681103
Rough cross and 1832 (Where a young servant girl committed suicide).
WILLIAM SHAW

Grid Ref. 769085

  FOUND DEAD

WILLIAM SHAW

LEALHOLM

MARCH 13th

1873

William Shaw,aged 83, was burning ling on Lealholme Moor on the morning of his death. At 1 o'clock his daughter found him dead. He was lying on his back, the body being badly burned.
FREDERICK WILLIAM SKIDMORE

Grid Ref. 664106 

+

F W S

1923 - 1985

Memorial to Frederick William Skidmore, born at Commondale 26th. October, 1923, and spent most of his life there before moving to Bristol with I. C. I. Bill maintained his link with Commondale and when he died, in 1985, his ashes were scattered in the rocky cleft in which the memorial is placed.
SLEEPY ROSEBUD OF KERMANSHA

Grid Ref. 578032 

IN MEMORY OF

SLEEPY ROSEBUD OF KERMANSHA

A STAR OF YTV'S LYKE WAKE WALK 1976

1973 - 1981

JOHN LAWRENCE SMYTH &

JOHN DUNDAS

Grid Ref. 483001

Seat with plaques.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF

JOHN DUNDAS

D.F.C. AND BAR 609 (WR) SQDN A. A. F.

28TH NOVEMBER 1940

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF

JOHN LAWRENCE SMYTH

 KOHIMA

6TH MAY 1944

GEORGINA STAINTHORPE

NEE GEORGINA RAWDON - SMITH

Grid Ref. 753046

  Mrs. STAINTHORPE

NEE GEORGINA

RAWDON - SMITH

1914 - 1967

SHE LOVED THE MOORS

 
FLT. LIEUT.PETER TOWNSEND

Grid Ref. 728102

DANBY BEACON

Site of

RAF RADAR STATION

1939-1954

THE MOUND BEHIND THIS MARKER

HOUSED THE EQUIPMENT WHICH

DETECTED AND LED TO THE

SHOOTING DOWN BY

FLT. LIEUT.PETER TOWNSEND

OF THE FIRST ENEMY AIRCRAFT

TO FALL ON ENGLAND

3rd. FEBRUARY 1940
VARIOUS AIRCREWS

Grid Ref. 517828

 1939 (crest) 1945

THIS PLAQUE IS A MEMORIAL

TO THE AIRCREWS OF ALL ALLIED

NATIONS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES

IN THE SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE

NOT LEAST THE CREW OF HALIFAX

BOMBER JD 105 10sqn MELBOURNE

WHICH CRASHED WITHIN HALF A

MILE OF THIS SITE, MAY 5th 1943

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ALSO IN MEMORY OF

THE PILOT OF AN F86 SABRE

XD733 92sqn LINTON-ON-OUSE

SEPTEMBER 21st 1954

----------LEST WE FORGET----------
JOHN HENRY BOYER WARNER

Grid Ref. 464906

JOHN HENRY BOYER WARNER OBELISK

IN MEMORY OF

JOHN HENRY BOYER WARNER

MA : DL : J.P. FRGS : FRGI:

BORN IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER

SEPTEMBER 2nd. 1849

DIED AT KEPWICK PARK APRIL 12th.1891

HE WAS A GREAT AND INTERLECTUAL TRAVELLER

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND HIS LIFE :

A POPULAR CANDIDATE FOR PARLIAMENT,

A TRUE AND NOBLE MAN

HIS MIND WAS ONE OF THE FIRSTIN WHICH

ORIGINATED THE GERM OF THAT GRAND SCHEME

"IMPERIAL FEDERATION"

HE WAS A MAN LIKED AND RESPECTED BY ALL

WHO KNEW HIM, NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN BY

THOSE HE LOVED

"HE WAS A MAN TAKE HIM FOR ALL IN ALL

I SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN".

"NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE"

 

(ON REVERSE SIDE)

A NATURE HIS OF QUIET FELICITY

A PIONEER OF THOUGHT THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE

HIS SOUL A GARB OF GRAND SIMPLICITY

THAT FEELINGS TRUE OF WONDROUS DEPTH DID ROLL

SUCH MEN DENOTE THE CAPABILITY

OF NATURE'S GLORIOUS POWER IN HER PRIME

SHOW US THE PATH OF POSSIBILITY

THAT LEADS BEYOND THE MEASURED SCOPE OF TIME.
GEORGE WATSON

Grid Ref. 663115 

GEORGE WATSON 

FELO. DE. SE. 

 

HOMINIS EST ERRARE 

The stone marks the pool in the Ravengill beck in which George Watson committed suicide. He worked in the Commondale brickworks. Suicide was considered a crime until 1961.

Suicide in 1876

 Crime against himself

 

It is of a man to err
WENDY & JENNY

Grid Ref. 853949

R. I. P.

Wendy

Oct. 18. 1940

-------

Jenny

June 19. 1941

LOVED ONES SLEEPING
LIEUTENANT THOMAS D. WHEELER & MAJOR DONALD L. SCHUYLER

Grid Ref. 766080

 THIS STONE WAS PLACED BY THE PEOPLE OF LEALHOLM

IN MEMORY OF THE UNITED STATES AIRMEN

MAJOR DONALD L. SCHUYLER ( USAF)

AND

LIEUTENANT THOMAS D. WHEELER (USAF)

WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WHEN THEIR

AIRCRAFT CRASHED HERE 24.4.79
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