Ed Henderson

Apples still on a tree in an old orchard at Scarness by Bassenthwaite Lake in the Lake District yesterday. This orchard is shown on maps from the 1800s.

The Howgill Fells in East Cumbria are extremely treeless. The ecological diversity of these fells has been severely damaged by centuries of sheep farming. This applies to most of upland Britain.

An old stone-lined tunnel near Rydal in Cumbria today. Old maps suggest it was part of an 18th Century slate quarry.

Stuart Maconie said ‘to southerners, the north means desolation, arctic temperatures, mushy peas, a cultural wasteland with limited shopping opportunities. To northerners it means home, truth, beauty, valour, romance, warm and characterful people, real beer and decent chip shops’.

I did not know that. Thanks for letting me know. I have just had a look at the Historic England listing which also mentions 'Bridal of Triermain'.

Castle Rock near Thirlmere. A probable hillfort site associated with Arthurian legend, i.e. the Castle Rock of Triermain, which is linked to King Arthur through Sir Walter Scott's poem, "The Bridal of Triermain", which popularized a legend about a castle located there.
#HillfortsWednesday

Between Grasmere and Rydal, Cumbria.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#WallsOnWednesday

Off the Norfolk coast where cliffs are turned into off-shore sand bars with wind turbines.

Rainfall England and Wales Sunday and Monday. 50-133 mm in Wales and Cumbria but only 3-6 mm in Norfolk. Thinking of moving to Norfolk.

Early fifteenth-century altar tomb with an effigy of Sir Richard Musgrave (died 1409) in the Hartley chapel of the Parish Church, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria.
Late for #MemorialMonday and #MedievalMonday but early for #TombTuesday

Bassenthwaite Lake in the Lake District just before sunset yesterday.

Part of a 10th Century cross shaft bearing a relief of Loki, the Norse god, shown bound and chained, from the Anglo Saxon period. Kirkby Stephen parish church, Cumbria.
#MedievalMonday

Snow returned to the Lake District fells last night. This is a view of the fells above Legburthwaite near Thirlmere this morning.

To illustrate my comment on the weather, views of Dartmouth in Devon and Honister in the Lake District this afternoon.

An old stone barn in the Newlands Valley in the Lake District last Monday. The Lake District often has the worst weather in England.

Kirkby Stephen Parish Church Cumbria. It is sometimes called the "Cathedral of the Dales" and, in Cumbria, only Kendal Parish Church is larger. There was an Anglo-Saxon church on this site and then a Norman church but this was rebuilt in c. 1230 and has been significantly altered since.

It's been chucking it down again! The River Lune from the Lune Bridge in Cumbria this afternoon.
#Bridgesthursday

Two boulders incorporated into a drystone wall in Grasmere, Cumbria.
#WallsOnWednesday

A very old oak on the footpath between Rydal and Grasmere in Cumbria. I guess Wordsworth would have walked past this tree when living in both of these villages.
#ThickTrunkTuesday

Derwentwater in the Lake District last week.
#BlueSkyMonday

The 14th century tower of St Oswald’s Church in Grasmere, Cumbria. For years the tower was white but in 2017 a new lime render was applied and it became yellow.
#MedievalMonday

The Millennium Stone, Derwentwater is a sculpture by Peter Randall-Page, made in 1995. I have also seen it called the Centenary Stone and the Hundred Year Stone. It was placed here to commemorate the Centenary of the National Trust in the Lake District.

‘Standing Stone’ or just a big boulder at the side of Derwentwater in the Lake District a few days ago.
#StandingStoneSunday

Nice sunset behind the old chestnut tree near Bassenthwaite in the Lake District this evening.

Kirkoswald castle in Cumbria received a license from King John in 1210 to fortify the original structure. The Castle was later destroyed by Robert the Bruce in 1314, but was rebuilt and extended in the late 15th Century.
All that remains now is a tower some 60 feet high.
#CastleSaturday

Derwentwater in the Lake District this morning. The lakeside path is wonderfully accessible from Keswick and gives great views.

Frost on the windows this morning.

Some kind of puffball fungus in the woods near Bassenthwaite in the Lake District this week.
#FungiFriday
#FungiFriends

Beautiful.

That South Street footbridge photo is amazing.