Many is the time I have driven along the B6001 between the villages of Calver and Hassop. Almost every time, I have glanced across fields to the right to see a scenic barn and thought, "I need to photograph that!"
Unfortunately, along that road there is nowhere to park up for a while so I had another thought. Perhaps I could leave Clint in the nearby village of Rowland and then walk along an old lead miners' track upon the ridge and through the woodland behind the barn.
This plan came to fruition on Wednesday morning as these two barn pictures show. It is off the beaten track and not by an official public right away so I guess that very few photos if any have ever been taken of this particular barn. You can see the original roof has caved in but at the north end of it the farmer has done a partial re-roofing with steel sheets.
Below, above the village of Rowland, I spotted a flying saucer landing pad. Actually, it's the top cover of a small reservoir that serves that local community.
Today - Saturday - I drove over to Hull once again. My team were playing Swansea City.
I set off early again in order to bag some more Geograph squares. The image below was taken at the entrance of the now disused Westlands plant nurseries near the village of Ellerker in East Yorkshire.
.The next picture was taken on Norfolk Bank Lane - a single roadway with passing places.. In the distance you can see The Yorkshire Wolds rising above the flat farmland.
Finally, I snapped this picture at remote Sand Bridge looking along Ellerker Drain. The road to the right leads nowhere and is used almost exclusively by farmers with jobs to do upon the land.
There's always something to see if you keep moving.
ReplyDeleteCuriosity and The Geograph Project have taken me to thousands of places I would otherwise never have been.
DeleteEvery time you put up a few pictures like these, I want to be there and go walking, it all looks so peaceful.
ReplyDeleteYou feel privileged to be out in the countryside following a map route you have devised yourself. I am glad you like this kind of post Elsie.
DeleteI used to love taking pictures of old barns and the like. Them were the days. When I rambled using my legs and not my mouth.
ReplyDeleteIt is funny how that verb has two different meanings.
DeleteThe half-abandoned barn is of course intriguing to me. Why did the farmer re-roof it only partially? Wouldn‘t it be of much better use to him with a full roof? And what is the red bit?
ReplyDeleteEllerker - another place name of, I assume, Viking origin. On Bornholm you‘ll find Pedersker, pronounced Persker with the e sounding like in the word west.
The photo of the old nursery with the sign mirrored in the puddle is very good, too.
The "red thing" is actually two red things. They are in fact rusty red and they are pieces of steel that have at some time been secured to the wall with strong bolts in order to strengthen it. They are acting as anchor plates and they prevent an old wall from bowing.
DeleteIf that barn was down south some posh person would be living in it. Great photos.
ReplyDeleteWho would it be? Perhaps Elton John or Jacob Rees-Mogg. Maybe they would be living together if David Furnish dropped dead.
DeleteMaybe Westlands should have been called Wetlands. Now I have forgotten what I read today about North Yorkshire. I was going to make a pithy remark to you. Damn.
ReplyDeleteWhile it is good that the barn is getting a new roof, it is not exactly sympathetic to the original.
I am sure that that partial barn roof contravenes Peak Park regulations. Is "pithy" a word that short-tongued people use instead of "pissy"?
DeleteNo, I have a lisp.
DeleteThere are hundreds of those land drains. Just think, they were originally all dug out by hand.
ReplyDeleteThat is a truly awesome thought.
DeleteBy the way: you forgot to tell us the Hull Swansea result.
DeleteSadly, we lost. On the day, Swansea were the better team. It was as if we never really got going.
DeleteLooking at the cover for the reservoir it's easy to see how some would assume that the Martians had landed - especially after an inebriated night out!
ReplyDeleteI like the photo of the abandoned garden centre, it looks so forlorn.
Maybe the reason that barn is only half roofed is because someone in "authority" spotted it and stopped the work?
The barn is in the Peak District National Park and so it is subject to strict planning rules which I suspect the farmer ignored.
DeleteYou most certainly live in a picturesque land. I'm glad you figured out a way to get pictures of the barn.
ReplyDeleteThings like that irritate me so I am glad I got it in the end.
DeleteSuch a pretty place. My first thought on the barn, was that someone had built a small home inside half of the stone walls of an old barn.
ReplyDeleteI looked inside the barn and there was no obvious reason why that half roof had been put on.
DeleteLovely countryside. Poor barn - I wonder how old it is?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the photos, Neil.
The barn could easily be three hundred years old.
DeleteLovely photos. Thank you for sharing your part of the world with us.
ReplyDeleteWe are so lucky to live very close to The Peak District.
DeleteI know you don't read science-fiction, but the alien landing pad brings to mind The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham. I wonder why the roof repair is only partial? It wouldn't protect much from a blowing rain.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the roof job isn't finished. Sometimes old barns are used as shelters for sheep in bad weather but inside that barn there was just debris - including the fallen roof.
DeleteVery desolate unspoilt countryside, but good for peacefulness, I would imagine
ReplyDeleteThe farmland north of The Humber would not exist without its network of drains. Some of them were dug a thousand years ago.
DeleteI love your photos, particularly the one at Westlands with the reflection, though they might want to change the name to Wetlands.
ReplyDeleteFarmland can flood in that area but the clever network of drains deals with most of the water.
DeleteGood job snapping the barn! I've had that happen too -- seen something out and about that I want to photograph but then struggled with the logistics. It's always an interesting challenge, and fulfilling when it comes to fruition!
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