Qualla: Hole of Horcum https://qualla.com/hole-of-horcum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/t/hole-of-horcum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hole of Horcum https://qualla.com/hole-of-horcum Hole of Horcum: Introduction https://qualla.com/hole-of-horcum/ Photo credit illuminatusds, CC BY-SA 3.0. Wade the Giant lost his temper. His wife had said something - the stories disagree on what - and he reached down, tore up a handful of earth, and threw it at her. The handful left a hollow three-quarters of a mile across and four hundred feet deep. That, at least, is how the locals explain the Hole of Horcum. The geologists tell a slower, less dramatic story: water seeping up from the hillside, grain by grain, over tens of thousands of years. Stand on the rim of the bowl and the giant version feels almost believable.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/t/hole-of-horcum-wp/gcxt-hole-of-horcum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hole of Horcum: A Bowl in the Moor https://qualla.com/hole-of-horcum/ Photo credit Dirk Ingo Franke, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Hole sits in the Tabular Hills of the North York Moors, upstream of the small villages of Levisham and Lockton. From the lay-by on the A169 - the road that climbs over the moors between Pickering and Whitby - the view opens suddenly, with no warning and no parking discipline ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/t/hole-of-horcum-wp/gcxt-hole-of-horcum-a-bowl-in-the-moor.mp3 0:06 2 full Hole of Horcum: Water, Slowly https://qualla.com/hole-of-horcum/ Photo credit Partonez, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Hole was carved by spring-sapping. Water welling up from the hillside undermines the slopes above, dislodging grain after grain until the slope above collapses, and the process resets a little further back. Over thousands of years, a narrow valley widens and deepens into the ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/t/hole-of-horcum-wp/gcxt-hole-of-horcum-water-slowly.mp3 0:06 3 full Hole of Horcum: Wade and His Hammer https://qualla.com/hole-of-horcum/ Photo credit Thomas Tolkien from Scarborough, UK, CC BY 2.0. Wade is a folkloric giant of the North York Moors, credited with everything from the Roman road on Wheeldale to half the unusual landforms in the region. The Hole of Horcum is his temper tantrum frozen in geology. The name itself is older and less mythic: early forms include Hotc...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/t/hole-of-horcum-wp/gcxt-hole-of-horcum-wade-and-his-hammer.mp3 0:06 4 full Hole of Horcum: Walking the Rim https://qualla.com/hole-of-horcum/ Photo credit Peter Church, CC BY-SA 2.0. A footpath circles the entire Hole, about six and a half miles around if you keep to the top. The walk gives you a continually shifting view of the bowl below: in summer, gorse and bell heather brighten the slopes; in late August and September the moor goes purple as the ling hea...

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