2020

SE8495 : Abandoned engineering, Pifelhead Wood

taken 4 years ago, 5 km NNE of Levisham, North Yorkshire, England

Abandoned engineering, Pifelhead Wood
Abandoned engineering, Pifelhead Wood
Update: 24 April 2021

I've received an email from Tracey:

"... saw your pic, we were down there yesterday, after being told a few weeks earlier that it was the abandoned farm from the Spanish flu 1918-20.
The children hadn't been seen for a long time so someone went down and found the parents dead from the flu and the children still alive, we were told this story by a farmer from Cropton who we met on a walk near Skelton tower so aimed to search it out, wondered if you knew any history from it? You can see the remains of buildings the farm house and the abandoned piece of farm machinery you photographed."

Intriguing. The 1914 O.S. map (LinkExternal link ) doesn't show any farm there, so I assume the ruined walls are a sheep fold and the farm must have been down/up the dale.

If anyone knows of further info., it would be much appreciated.

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Geographical Context: Derelict, Disused Woodland, Forest Primary Subject: Forest other tags: Forest Scrap Derelict Abandoned Farm Machinery Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Articles: · Images shortlisted for POTY, 2020 Automatic Clusters: · Pifelhead Wood [14] · Ruin [2] ·
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Mick Garratt   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 1 November, 2020   (more nearby)
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Monday, 2 November, 2020
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OSGB36: geotagged! SE 8450 9517 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:20.7052N 0:42.0979W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SE 8450 9517
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