{"id":77396,"date":"2014-08-20T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=77396"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:18:25","slug":"the-hole-of-horcum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=77396","title":{"rendered":"The Hole of Horcum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1250\" height=\"788\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img695-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59123\" style=\"width:674px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img695-a-1.jpg 1250w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img695-a-1-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img695-a-1-476x300.jpg 476w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img695-a-1-150x95.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img695-a-1-400x252.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1250px) 100vw, 1250px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The Hole of Horcum is a hollow in the valley of Levisham Beck, the hollow is 400 feet deep and stretches 3\/4 of a mile across; local legend has it that the amphitheatre was formed when Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife during an argument. This postcard view gives a true impression of the enormity of this hollow. Close to the road between Sleights and Pickering features an impressive incline feared by many drivers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of John G Hannah. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Hole of Horcum is a hollow in the valley of Levisham Beck, the hollow is 400 feet deep and stretches 3\/4 of a mile across; local legend has it that the amphitheatre was formed when Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife during an argument. This [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-york-moors","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79270,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77396\/revisions\/79270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}