2019

SE6297 : Bransdale

taken 5 years ago, near to Cockayne, North Yorkshire, England

Bransdale
Bransdale
A lovely day in Bransdale.

Bransdale’s walls are precarious features. Irregular sandstone boulders built in a single skin with more holes than a colander, yet this wall is shown on mid-19th-century maps but as a boundary between the moor and the richer fields of the dale, it might well be much, much older, first constructed by the earliest inhabitants of the dale. It wiggles along the contour around a small re-entrant, crossing a chalybeate bog. Dry stone walls are a haven for wildlife offering a variety of micro climates. One side is damper and shadier where mosses, liverworts and algae can gain a foothold. Lichens thrive on the other drier and warmer side. Inside the wall, the nooks and crannies will provide a dry and sheltered home for small mammals and birds.

From my photo-diary for 16th May 2019 see LinkExternal link

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Geographical Context: Boundary, Barrier Lakes, Wetland, Bog Primary Subject: Wall other tags: Chalybeate Bog Wall Dry Stone Dry-Stone Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
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SE6297, 44 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Mick Garratt   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Thursday, 16 May, 2019   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 18 May, 2019
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SE 6288 9737 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:22.0784N 1:2.0214W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SE 62903 97379
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