The Valley church - Levisham

Old print of Levisham church, 

Yesterday we went in search of the Levisham church but after a conversation with someone from the village, learnt that the church I was looking for was a ruined church called the 'Valley Church', and as it had started to rain, and LS HATES rain, we called the walk off into the valley, but will return soon. In this church, in the porch is a Saxon grave cover in two pieces, and several bits inside the church, which can be found in the Saxon Corpus, Volume 3.

There are two villages set off the main Pickering to Whitby road, Loxton and Levisham, you approach Levisham down a very steep hill with an almost vertical drop, the Valley church is along a trackway not too far from the Mill at the bottom.  Apparently the old road to Whitby from Pickering went through parts of this place.  So this isolated church may have been a remnant of a medieval village, there has already been an archaeological dig on a flat platform next to the church.
So another trip one day, but it is an interesting place Levisham, it really falls at the end of the Hole of Horcum, and there is only one road into it. A walker's paradise, about a mile along a lane you come to the Levisham station with I believe a resident artist.

Today I got up at 6 o clock, and listened to the two owls outside, later on spied the thrush making an appearance this year on the lawn, spring is definitely with us!

The hens in their sunny dry dust bath below the yew

Grass frosts in the early morning

The village photos were not good, typical farm buildings