I was walking away up in the North Moor - you know, right up on the northern borders of the Shire - early last spring, when a similar rider met me.

The two young men lived in a farm far up on the North Moors and, three miles out of the town, we left the main road and our headlights picked out a strip of track twisting along the dark hillside.

They do say as one nigh as big as a tower or leastways a tree was seen up away beyond the North Moors not long back.

North Moor is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest because of its nationally important grazing marsh and ditch system on the Somerset Levels and Moors.

North Moor is a nationally important grazing marsh and ditch system on the Somerset Levels and Moors.

An early example was the 1,000-ihp engine delivered to the North Moor spinning company in 1876.

He also managed a number of pubs, notably the North Moor in Sunderland, now demolished, and The Bush in the Hendon area of the town.

They do say that one bigger than a tree was seen up away beyond the North Moors not long back.

"But this one was walking, I tell you; and there ain't no elm tree on the North Moors."

From Coxley the river flows north through Hay Moor and North Moor, west through Ash Moor, then sharply south through Frogmore and west through Godney.