Category Archives: limestone scenery

Wandering walls in limestone country

Posted on October 17, 2022 by solwayshorewalker

Dry stone wallers need to be pragmatists, building around or over problem areas, or incorporating boulders too big to move. At Bents, near Newbiggin-on-Lune on the edge of the Westmorland Dales, red sandstone and pale limestone are strikingly juxtaposed.  Huge … Continue reading →

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Clints Crags. An intermittent diary of a limestone pavement

Posted on February 1, 2022 by solwayshorewalker

Clints Crags are part of a limestone complex not far from where I live (see elsewhere on this blog). The complex has three disused quarries, limestone outcrops, sinkholes, drystone walls in various levels of disrepair, and limestone pavement. The pavement … Continue reading →

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In limestone country: Clints Crags

Posted on November 22, 2021 by solwayshorewalker

The village where I live is at the foot of a limestone plateau on the north-west edge of the Lake District. It is one of a line of low-lying villages where springs arise to feed becks that flow out onto … Continue reading →

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