Otley In Otley, I used to talk to an old nearly blind woman of 92 who used to accost anyone walking past her cottage on Major Dawson's estate. Her father was a doctor. She told me tales of her father, who was a doctor. Timbel is a village sitting high up above Otley. One day in the early 1900's Timbel was completely snowed in and her father forced his horse through the thick snow to help a woman deliver a baby. This woman is now dead and buried in the small church on Major Dawson's estate. An aristocrat living in Timbel in the early 1900's wrote a diary, it's still on sale locally and called Timbel Man. It consists of his daily observations recorded when walking around his village of the people, wild#life and crops. One day, rather than the usual ambling paragraphs, there was just a single sentence. War is comming. He meant WWI Reply Share Facebook Twitter Report