CONSTABLE AROUND THE PARK a perfect feel-good read from one of Britain’s best-loved authors (Constable Nick Mystery Book 29) by NICHOLAS RHEA

Author:NICHOLAS RHEA [RHEA, NICHOLAS]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Joffe Books crime thriller and cozy mystery suspense
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

When the North York Moors National Park became a reality in 1952, as the only one on the eastern side of England, there arose the question of an emblem or logo. It would have to be something suitable for use on a variety of artefacts such as publicity material, official vehicles, stationery and popular merchandise like T-shirts, key rings and ballpoint pens. In addition, it would have to capture the unique flavour of the area in a simple but highly visible manner.

Although I was not present at those discussions, it is not difficult to imagine the range of themes that might have been suggested—a moorland scene with an expanse of the famous heather, one of its equally famous and instantly recognizable structures such as Rievaulx Abbey or Beggar’s Bridge, the Roman road at Wheeldale, a river or coastal scene, Lake Gormire near Sutton Bank, one of the area’s thatched cottages, some of the park’s renowned wild plants such as daffodils from Farndale or sundews from the moors, a forest or woodland scene with bluebells, or merely some representative wild creature, a salmon perhaps, a badger or maybe a bird. But if a bird was chosen, then surely it would have to be the red grouse; this is not found outside the British Isles and it is an essential and historic part of the North Yorkshire moorland scene. The grouse cannot survive without the heather, and the grouse management system with its shooting parties and heather burning maintains the heather in splendid condition. Wild though it may look, the heather is a valuable crop, carefully managed and nurtured: the heather needs the grouse and the grouse needs the heather. Each is vital to the other.

However, if the North York Moors are famous for having the largest open area of heather in England and the highest woodland cover of any English national park, as well as the indigenous red grouse, or even the astonishing coastline with its fishing villages like Robin Hood’s Bay and Staithes, they are equally noted for having the highest sea-cliff on the east coast (Boulby Head near Staithes—660 feet, 201 metres) and England’s deepest mine shaft (3,750 feet, 1,143 metres deep) at Boulby Potash Mine. The moorland is also known for being the scene of the first enemy aircraft to be shot down in World War II near Sleights by Group Captain Peter Townsend. That is marked by a small obelisk on the roadside verge at Sleights Lane End at the junction of the A169 and A171 near Whitby. In addition, the moors are also the scene of the world’s first ever flight by a manned aircraft. This was the work of Sir George Cayley from Brompton near Scarborough who, as early as 1809, produced a glider large enough to lift off the ground anyone who tried to hold on to it while it was in flight. By 1853, however, he had improved his glider so much that he took it into Brompton Dale, sat his coachman on board and launched him across the valley.

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