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2024-03-29T06:29:17+00:00text/html2007-02-22T09:25:23+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.309827 -2.255100SD8390 : Widdale Carr Plantation, West Appersett Pasture
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The gridsquare comprises uninhabited high fell, the vegetation being mainly coarse grass and reed suitable only for sheep. There is evidence in the landscape of some old forestry.
The high ground in the distance is Sandy Hill, the southernmost high ground of Widdale Fell.text/html2007-02-22T09:12:51+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.307169 -2.236642SD8490 : Appersett Pasture, Appersett, Hawes
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Appersett Pasture is an area of high fell lying at about 400m and situated one kilometre west of the small settlement of Appersett. The fell is marshy with coarse reed and clumps of grass but is easily traversed by a bridleway running along the lower slopes of Widdale Fell.
In the distance is Dodd Fell Hill, 668 m, with the Pennine Way running along its western slopes.text/html2007-02-14T13:09:50+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.310055 -2.101405SD9390 : The River Bain in full spate at Bainbridge
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This photograph is taken from my garden and shows the river in winter. Needless to say my fishing rights off my garden wall are of no use to me this week!
The Bain is a short river but has a high flow-rate as it drains the glacial lake, Semerwater, and all the smaller dales off Raydale which is a blind ending dale off Wensleydale. One kilometre to the north of Bainbridge village the Bain flows into the River Ure.text/html2007-02-07T17:06:02+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.336968 -2.147611SD9093 : Sargill Parks, Low Abbotside, Wensleydale
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Sargill Parks is an uninhabited area of high fell rising from 400m to over 500m. The ground is covered by heather and rough marshy reed and tussocks of grass and is dangerous to cross due to the many shake holes.
Note the patches of burnt heather in the distance where the old heather has been burnt this week to improve the ground-nesting habitat for grouse.text/html2007-02-07T16:53:58+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.330881 -2.126368SD9192 : Cogill Closes, Helm, Wensleydale
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The Cogill Closes are some small areas of good pasture set around some old and disused field barns. Originally the barns would have been used for overwintering cattle inside the protection of the barn. Nowadays they are used only at lambing time.
Surrounding the Closes is high fell, rough and marshy and with many swallow holes.text/html2007-02-07T16:38:51+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.329814 -2.115293SD9292 : Whitfield Scar, Helm, Wensleydale
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The photograph is taken from the footpath crossing Helm Pasture and shows the Scar (550m) with Whitfield Gill in the middle ground. The land is rough and stony and is used for sheep.
It is worth noting the drystone wall precariously climbing up the scar side. It was erected in 1817 under the terms of the Askrigg Enclosure Acts which separated one owner's 'allotment' from that of another's grazing allocation.text/html2007-02-05T11:50:05+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.357323 -2.105523SD9395 : Oxnop Common, Swaledale
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Oxnop Common is the area of high fell lying to the northwest of the Askrigg to Muker moor road, an old drove road, seen running across the photograph.It is some 500m high and supports only the grazing of sheep and grouse shooting.
The fell has limestone as the base rock and there are many shake holes and swallow holes.text/html2007-02-05T11:38:52+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.345989 -2.116877SD9294 : Blackstone, Askrigg Moor, Wensleydale
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Blackstone, or Blackstone Edge, is an area of desolate high fells, all above 580 m, 3 km NW of Askrigg. There are the remains of some shallow pits from documented 19th century coal mining as well as lead mining evidence.
Access is by a well worn bridleway which leads safely, avoiding the many swallow holes, to a beacon at the northern most part of the gridsquare.text/html2007-02-04T17:47:11+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.346015 -2.086111SD9494 : Askrigg Common North
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This gridsquare is very rough high fell suitable only for sheep and for grouse shooting. Walking here is dangerous due to naturally occurring deep depressions called swallow holes and also unmarked pits dating from the lead mining in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In the distance can be seen the high land above Carperby. text/html2007-02-04T17:34:05+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.346003 -2.101494SD9394 : Oxnop Beck Head
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The main feature of this grid square is Oxnop Gill, a deep gorge running south from Swaledale. The Moor Road from Askrigg to Muker dips steeply down on the west side and a rough, gated road runs along the top of the cliffs of Oxnop Scar on the east towards Satron.
The area is uninhabited fell used for sheep and grouse shooting.text/html2007-01-03T15:00:11+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.265125 -2.093618SD9485 : Stake Fell, Carpley Green, Bainbridge
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This area is of immense historic interest as the remains of small Iron Age fields and settlements have remained relatively undisturbed since the third century BC as no crops can be grown or land ploughed at this altitude. An Iron Age burial site marker, Stony Raise Cairn, also remains.text/html2007-01-03T14:40:06+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.274106 -2.101317SD9386 : Water Ling Pasture, Carpley Green, Bainbridge
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The whole of the gridsquare is high, boggy fell. It is uninhabited and only suitable for sheep grazing.
Because of the poor quality of the terrain the fell grazing areas enclosed by stone walls at the time of the 18C Enclosure Acts are extensive. This made it a useful site for tank training during the 1939-45 War by tanks based in Bainbridge. text/html2007-01-03T10:44:41+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.274118 -2.085961SD9486 : Water Ling Force, Carpley Green, Wensleydale
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Water Ling Force (waterfall) is beside Busk Lane which is a high by-way passing over from Bainbridge in Wensleydale to Bishopdale. Carpley Green farm (379m) is seen among the pastures in the middleground with Addlebrough (476m) in the distance.text/html2006-12-31T23:26:57+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.264952 -2.224117SD8585 : West Duerley Pasture, Sleddale, near Hawes
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This gridsquare comprises high fell on either side of a deep re-entrant with Duerley Beck, a tributary of the River Ure, running in the valley bottom. It is uninhabited fell and is mainly used for sheep farming.
On the right of the photo (to the west) the land rises 1 kilometre to the summit of Dod Fell which has the long distance trail, the Pennine Way, at its base.text/html2006-12-31T22:45:49+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/8727Geoff Keeble54.318814 -2.255156SD8391 : Mid Mossdale Farms, Mossdale, Wensleydale
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The gridsquare extends from Thwaite Wood in the foreground to the heather area running onto the high fell slopes below Sandy Hill. It is fairly flat and thus intensively farmed. A prominent visible feature is the track of the Wensleydale Railway, Hawes to Garsdale section, which closed in 1956.