Ewelop Hill, Fremington, Coast to Coast
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Ewelop Hill and Cogden Heugh, Grinton
Ewelop Hill, Fremington, Coast to Coast
The Coast to Coast path out of Reeth requires passing through Low Fremington on a minor road towards Marrick Abbey. In doing so you walk over Ewelop Hill. Ewelop Hill rises in an arc attaining a height of 190m. Whilst modest in height the hill is sufficiently high to afford a panoramic view over the River Swale and to Cogden Heugh, and the hillside woodlands of Cogden and Stolerston.
The north side of Ewelop Hill is home to an extensive Romano-British settlement, now forming part of West Hagg Farm. There are also established Earthworks on the opposite riverbank of the Swale, north east of Grinton.
Ewelop Hill Fremington
Ewelop Hill has a gentle incline as you follow the road from Low Fremington. Near the hill top, however, a look over the hedgerow to the hilltop reveals a precipitous Swale-facing drop to the valley floor, albeit covered with a foliar canopy.
Cogden Heugh
Cogden Heugh is a 346m hill directly south of Ewelop Hill, on the opposite side of the River Swale. The Hill has a steep south face near its summit (hence the name "heugh") and its lower slopes are littered with disused mining pits. Cogden Hall is nestled in the copse at the Hill's foot. The main belt of trees rising up Cogden Heugh is Cogden Wood, and Stolerston Wood rises along its eastern tail.
Sheep Jam near Ewelop Hill
A Roman road once followed a route very close to and connected to, Ewelop Hill, from Reeth Bridge and through High Fremington. It joins the road on Ewelop Hill about 50 yards further on at the south end of West Hagg Farm, and follows the road past Reel Head Farm, through Markse, and into Richmond.
Grinton Lodge from Ewelop Hill
From Low Fremington the route of the Coast to Coast path follows the Reels Head Road to Ewelop Hill. From the foot of the Hill there is a panoramic view to Grinton Lodge, which is seen rising almost to the top of Hirst Ridge, encompassed by a small grove of trees.
Grinton Earthwork
From Ewelop Hill the fields on the opposite side of the River Swale, east of Grinton and south west of Cogden Hall clearly show the outlines of an extensive Earthwork in the foreground to Cogden Hall. The Earthwork is thought to be part of a Roman-British defended enclosure.
Ince Wood
Looking south from Reels Head towards the River Swale, Stony Bank Plantation, Colt Park Wood and Ince Wood extend down to the Coast to Coast path as it leaves Ewelop Hill.
West Hagg Romano British
A Romano British Settlement has been discovered around the pastural meadows of West Hagg and Hagg Farm, extending down to Ewelop Hill. The remains are overspread with rough turf but their outlines are detectable. There are 9 small farmsteads within a coaxial field system. The fields are lynchetted with stone field boundaries aligned ninety degrees to the north-south slope of the land.
Hagg Hoard Hagg Wood
About 1830 a hoard of Roman horse harness fittings that had been stolen from a Roman cavalry, were found at Fremington Hagg and have since been donated to the Yorkshire and British Museums. The Hoard is made up of Roman pendants, roundels and other horse furniture. The hoard dates to the pre-Flavian Dynsasty, which was between AD 69 and AD 96.
Coast to Coast Trail Guide
Hiking the Coast to Coast
"Hiking the Coast to Coast" is a digitally enhanced eBook available from Apple Books for all people who have either a Mac, an iPhone or an iPad, and is designed to accompany you on your walk of the Coast to Coast path. The trail guide contains Ordnance Survey maps and other advanced mapping features, step by step directions, hundreds of colour photographs, details of the route, its conditions in different weather and research snippets relating to places of interest along the way.
