👻 A Ghost Town in England!? Green Laning Yorkshire

A ghost town... in Yorkshire... in England... This is the stuff of dreams. I watch so many videos from our overland friends in the USA visiting old mining ghost towns, I never thought I'd find one so close to home.

We were driving the Scar House Reservoir green lanes, their actual names are Dead Mans Hill and In Moor Lane, and after we dropped down from Dead Mans Hill to the reservoir we drove through a ghost town.

I love exploring as you just never know what you might find. On this trip, the ghost turn we found was the hamlet of Lodge. Lodge is a former medieval grange farm for the Cistercian Abbey of Byland. The hamlet was sold into private ownership following the dissolution of the monasteries in the mid-16th century. The hamlet is recorded on Saxton’s map of 1577 as ‘Lodge howses’, and appears on Ordnance Survey maps from the mid-18th century onwards. It was continually occupied up to abandonment in the 1920s after the beginning of dam works for the creation of Scar House Reservoir c1921.

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Chapters

0:00 Teaser
0:18 Intro
0:44 Ascending Dead Mans Hill
1:35 Big Sky Views
4:08 Descending Dead Mans Hill
7:14 Lodge Hamlet Ghost Town
8:55 Scar House Reservoir
11:25 Scar Hosue Dam
11:50 Ascending In Moor Lane
14:00 Big Sky Views
15:50 Outro