BUSINESSES and residents in a cluster of remote valleys in the North York Moors are to get high-speed broadband.
The community broadband project, by NYnet and Moorsweb, is being rolled out to 150 people in the communities of Farndale, Blakey, Bransdale, Rudland, Beadlam Rigg and East Moors, which have previously had a slow or no internet connection.
Seven residents of Farndale recently felt the benefit of their new internet connection when they became stranded in the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge for eight days during the recent cold snap. The connection enabled them to notify friends and family.
NYnet has provided fibre-based internet to Gillamoor School, on the edge of the moors, where it is beamed wirelessly over nine miles in three directions to outlying homes and businesses.
Community service provider Moorsweb and LN Communications will deliver the internet connection, which has upload and download speeds of 6MB, with the potential to increase to 10MB in future.
The next phase of the scheme will add Rosedale to the fibre connection, and Moorsweb is investigating the possibility of further extending to Hutton-le-Hole and other communities.
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