2022
NY8732 : Piles of stone in stream groove
taken 2 years ago, 3 km from Langdon Beck, County Durham, England
Piles of stone in stream groove
The stream groove is on the south side of Fendrith Hill in Teesdale. The small stone piles are recent additions to the landscape and there are many more of them in other places on the hill, for example -
Link . The stones have been placed to reduce erosion and are there not so much to prevent water flow but to slow it; slowing the rate of water drainage has the added benefit of reducing the rate at which run off enters the river system.
An aerial view of the area shows that there are 'grips' - artificially cut drainage channels on the moorland above which were aligned to carry their waters into this stream groove to promote drainage to 'improve' the land. In an attempt to reduce erosion and to re-water the moorland those grips have been blocked in recent years.
The stones will have been brought to the site from the nearby, disused quarry at Harthope Bank.
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