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Ironstone Industry & Ana Cross loop from Rosedale Abbey — North York Moors National Park

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Ironstone Industry & Ana Cross loop from Rosedale Abbey — North York Moors National Park

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Ironstone Industry & Ana Cross loop from Rosedale Abbey — North York Moors National Park

03:03

10.8km

210m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 6, 2024

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North York Moors National Park

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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3.62 km

Sheriff's Pit

Highlight • Structure

Sheriff’s Pit is the remains of an old ironstone mine. It originally opened as a drift mine in 1857 (where a horizontal shaft is driven into the seam) and was manned by just two families in all conditions with a horse and cart. It closed two years later but reopened when the Rosedale Railway opened in the 1860s and a deep vertical shaft was excavated. The mine was named after Alexander Clune Sheriff, of the Rosedale Mining Company.

After the mine closed in 1911 nature began to reclaim the site. Birds like ring ouzel have a long association with the mine and rowan trees have been planted nearby to provide them with berries to eat before their long journey back to South Africa.

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6.95 km

Bank Top Iron Kilns

Highlight • Historical Site

The ironstone-rich landscape around Rosedale was totally transformed in Victorian times as demand for iron grew. So valuable was Rosedale Ironstone that 19th-century mine owners made every effort to extract it, even in remote areas.

Bank Top was where all the ironstone came for processing and transport. There would have been a railway, processing works, houses, plus more at this spot in the mid-19th century. Today, the crumbling kilns, chimneys and other ruins here are testament to a bygone industry. You get some breathtaking views at Bank Top, too.

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8.09 km

Ana Cross

Highlight • Monument

Ana Cross marks the spot of a prehistoric burial mound, a funerary monument from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age. It’s topped by a modern replacement of a medieval wayside cross, which marks an old moorland crossing. You get lovely views over the moors from this spot. When the heather blooms purple in summer it is especially photogenic.

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10.8 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

6.79 km

1.46 km

1.45 km

780 m

305 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

4.10 km

3.31 km

1.85 km

808 m

399 m

391 m

Elevation

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Highest point (330 m)

Lowest point (140 m)

Weather

Sunday 12 July

18°C

12°C

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Comments

September 12, 2024,Ironstone Industrie & Ana Cross Schleife von Rosedale Abbey — North York Moors National Park

The path between km 2.16 and Sherrif's Pit is poorly marked, so we had to look for it ourselves.
We also deviated from the original suggestion between Ann's Cross and the end of the tour, as the original suggestion led through untouched moorland.
In both cases, we would have liked better marking or maintenance of the public hiking trails.
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Ironstone Industry & Ana Cross loop from Rosedale Abbey — North York Moors National Park

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Bank Top Iron Kilns

Ana Cross

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