Fishing The Ure At Masham
2020-02-18 Masham Night 06
This image took nearly a year to get. Leaving the Kings Head one night after a storm I noticed that a car usually parked in front of the church, front right next to the hedge and it was not there. I hurried back to the flat and collected my camera, I had been grumbling at the car for months, as its positioning ruined the viewpoint. I set up for the shot but the rain kept coming in fits and starts and I had to shield the tripod from the wind to get a steady shot. The damp air gave the lens flash and the wind was whipping the trees as can be seen in the images. Although not perfect it would take a while to get another without the car in better weather.
About Masham
Masham – originally Maessa’s Ham – probably owed its foundation to the gentle, flood-proof rise on which it stands, near an easily fordable part of the River Ure, together with its proximity to the course of a Roman road and its position on the main route from Wensleydale to York.
The present square with its beautiful Georgian houses was created in the 18th century. The huge market place would originally have been surrounded by thatched cottages and was the site for annual Sheep Fairs with over 80,000 heads of sheep being sold some years, including animals from the flocks of nearby Fountains and Jervaulx Abbeys.
