Countryside

Last week’s news about King Charles opening the world’s longest coastal path around England inspired us to share a piece we recently discovered among Ronnie’s writings. With the spotlight now firmly on our National Trails, it felt like the perfect moment for this blog, a chance to highlight both the joys and the challenges these routes bring.

I feel compelled to write about stiles because they are part of our landscape which is fast disappearing. More and more stiles that I have known, some of them I have loved, are being removed and are being replaced by the ubiquitous galvanised kissing gate. Stiles are under danger from political correctness!

Chris fastidiously collected Observer Books, clearly Observer Book no 10, Geology, got up Ronnie's nose! Observer Book No 10 Geology...

A fingerpost is a post set up, generally where roads cross or divide, to show the direction of certain places.

In all that has been done of late, in the way of country-side preservation and the care of ancient monuments, no general effort seems to have been made on behalf of some of our oldest friends, the milestones.

Stiles-yes, I mean Stiles to Style! Yes, I’m female but stiles not style is a concern of mine. Stiles intrigue me by their different styles

I am just an ordinary person trying to understand why we need to place wind turbines in some of the most remote areas of the British Isles

Ronnie was fascinated with the history of all sorts and everything and being a keen walker wrote this lovely piece about the history of maps

To the North we have Melmerby Fell, Knapside and Little Knapside, Fiend’s Fell and beyond that in Gilderdale Forest there is Black Fell and

The beginning of roads starts with wild animals who wandered about the countryside, down to the water and migrating from worn out feed groun

Ordnance Survey Bench marks (BMs) are survey marks made by Ordnance Survey to record height above Ordnance Datum.

County Councils via their Highway Departments are replacing stiles in order to allow greater access to the countryside for those with disabi

It is difficult to calculate the number of bores in the world. I have read that there are sixty but also that there are ”over a hundred”.