Sutton Bank
Sutton Bank is a survey in North Yorkshire, North East England. Located at the edge of the Howardian Hills, and thus also on the edge of the North York Moors. She is known mainly for its spectacular views, especially from the cliff Roulston Scar from: from there, the Vale of York and the Vale of Mowbray easy overview, the visibility on a clear day is about 50 kilometers. The almost vertical cliff on its southern side is 140 meters high.
The situation was already in the Iron Age as the site of a large fortification which was built around 400 BC. The still existing earthworks suggest a plant size of at least 24 hectares, the largest still existing embankments have today a height of almost three meters. Larger parts of the plant were destroyed in the second half of the 20th century, when the Gliding Club built a runway and a clubhouse; that there had been parts of the fort, was later obvious.
Today it is used by tourists, above all, because Sutton Bank is the first point of the North York Moors on the A170, it is considered a " gateway to the National Park " and has been the location of a visitor center. The road itself overcomes at about 1200 meters altitude difference of 160 meters, with individual sections have up to 25 % slope. Most notorious is a hairpin curve with a slope of 25%. The road is closed for campers. Remain several times a year and other heavy vehicles depend on it about 120 times a year must assist the police broken-down trucks, another 400 trucks experiencing serious problems and need some more hours for the ascent.
Sutton Bank was created during the Weichsel ice age when a glacier pushed by cutting between the North York Moors in the east and the Pennines to the west. The long-distance Cleveland Way passes on the collection. A Gliding Club, the Yorkshire Gliding Club, uses the cliff since 1933 as a permanent starting point. The Kilburn White Horse since 1857 adorns a wall of Sutton Bank.