Man On The Moors, Castleton Rigg, North Yorkshire Moors, UK

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A 3 metre high statue of a seated man appeared at one of the most dramatic locations on the North Yorkshire Moors. As the summer heather season was in full swing, I headed across there to check out the Jeremy Corbijn lookalike.​

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The bronze painted statue was the brainchild of Sean Henry and commissioned by the David Ross Foundation. David Ross is the co-founder of UK company Carphone Warehouse and owns the land which the statue was placed.

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The Man On The Moors was put in position in June 2017 and proved to be very popular with tourists and sightseers, but you had to hike half a mile from the nearest road to see it. The plan was to leave the statue in situ for 5 years, but in April 2019 it was removed and placed in the North Yorkshire Statue Museum.

 

 I visited the statue on 3 occasions, beginning with a daytime recce, when the heather was in full bloom, followed by 2 night time trips to attempt a star trail and a milky way shot. See video above for the results of those 3 trips.

 

The Man On The Moors - a pleasure to visit, although those night time teks across the moors in pitch dark were an experience and a half !