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2024-03-29T05:00:13+00:00text/html2023-08-11T15:59:09+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.129632 -2.293778SD8070 : Sunken track abandoned by footpath
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The old sunken track is boggy and becoming overgrown with hawthorn. It is no longer followed by walkers on the Ribble Way - the easy path lies to the west of the bank.text/html2023-08-11T15:53:29+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.136899 -2.299034SD8071 : Ribble Way footbridge south of Horton
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A very substantial girder footbridge over a very low River Ribble - but it does flood a lot higher than this, so I can see why it needs to be well-built.text/html2023-08-11T15:47:29+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.149294 -2.302185SD8072 : Horton-in-Ribblesdale station from the platform at the crossing
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From Ingleborough and Sulber Nick, the public footpath descends to cross the Settle-Carlisle Railway at the southern end of Horton-in-Ribblesdale station, rejoining the road network shortly below this point. It's anot a busy place on a dreich Saturday afternoon in February, but in summer can be thronging with point-to-point walkers seeking (or disembarking from) a shuttle by train.text/html2023-08-11T15:40:36+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.150265 -2.309082SD7972 : Beecroft Hall fields
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Fields enclose grazing that is almost as rough as the land higher above on the slopes of Ingleborough, but there is a good path underfoot. The thin line of trees on the skyline marks the edge of Horton Limestone Quarry, a horrendous kilometre wide eyesore seen from Ribblesdale, but remarkably invisible from the side. Noise and rising dust is sometimes more of a giveaway, but on this visit all was quiet.text/html2023-08-11T15:33:25+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.153654 -2.319060SD7973 : Descending from Sulber Nick to Horton
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The green marked public right of way seems to have little relation to the clearly well maintained paths across the CROW Access Land hereabouts, lying somewhere off to the left of this view. The limestone surfaced path, however, is unmistakeable (even in mist and dark if you listen to your footsteps) and is the obvious line to take towards Horton-in-Ribblesdale with the cloud containing Penyghent beyond.text/html2023-08-11T15:19:39+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.152743 -2.323646SD7873 : Descending from Moughton by the old Sulber Nick track
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The marked public footpath to Sulber Nick and up to Nick Pot, takes a more direct line (for walkers) than the older track (which is not a public right of way, but is on CROW Access Land) which one encunters first if coming from the south. This is the point where it drops down, leaving this square, to join the public footpath from Moughton at a slightly lower level>.as it happens. that's the way I came, but had to nip up here in order not to miss this square.text/html2023-08-07T20:19:35+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.145464 -2.323436SD7872 : Moughton wall meets the Horton path
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The stille marks the crossing of the long, almost north-south, wall on Moughton, and takes the walker towards an eventual descent to Horton-in-Ribblesdale. To the left, the path heads down towards Austwick. Those seeking a route up Ingleborough need to head a bit further north yet before finding the well trodden path onto the Allotment.text/html2023-08-07T20:07:53+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.141063 -2.322484SD7971 : Long wall across Moughton
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There are no real paths across the high plateau of Moughton, and it is generally a choice between boggy heather or loose limestone pavement and shillow. However, at least sheep feel the need to pick a route sheltered from the cold east winds of winter, so a trod of sorts follows the wall closely on its way north towards the main path up from Horton-in-Ribblesdale.text/html2023-08-07T19:59:05+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.136015 -2.327801SD7871 : Moughton trig. point and pile of stones
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One can only tell by the OS map whether a given heap of rocks is a cairn or a pile of stones (if it has words at all). The OS believe this one to be a pile of stones, so I guess we take their work for it, though some definitions in the map key would not go amiss, so we might know the difference. The trig. point is, on the other hand, unmistakeable in its identification.text/html2023-08-07T19:50:44+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.132423 -2.326701SD7870 : Looking from Moughton towards Austwick
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The extensive limestone plateau behind Moughton Nab is featureless and fairly pathless, but mysteriously dotted with cairns in places of no apparent significance. There's one just behind the photographer, and my GPS says it's in this square, but aerial photography is just too low-resolution to identify it with certainty. It seems to be right on the square boundary within a metre or two, but for geograph purposes it's safer to just look the other way and pick a subject which is well inside the square. Despite the bogginess of the moor and the number of closed depressions, there are no discrete stream sinks or deep shakeholes, so the area has long been regarded as hopeless for the discovery of new cave systems. There are various risings below it, but all are too small for any kind of exploration. A bit of a cavers' desert, really.text/html2023-08-07T19:13:46+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.127700 -2.311668SD7970 : The moor above Moughton
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Although bare limestone is not everywhere, the scenery on this area of moorland is very karstic with no surface water and many closed depressions. But with no shale cover to concentrate water into streams, there is very little in the way of known cave development, and it's a bleak and unpromising place to come looking, despite the obvious attractions of a "blank on the map". Indeed, so poor is its reputation for those looking for new caverns measureless to man that this is the first time I've been up here since starting caving almost fifty years ago. Such are the attractions of new personal points on geograph ! Also it was handily nearby for the club dinner later in the evening...text/html2023-08-07T19:04:15+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.119781 -2.315586SD7969 : Looking down to the Road of a Thousand Bends from the path to Moughton Nab
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That's probably not an official name, but any Yorkshire Dales caver will know exactly where you mean if you mention the Road of a Thousand Bends, being the way between Ribblesdale and Austwick and a frequent route for those visiting the Helwith Bridge pub from caving clubs in the Clapham and Ingleton areas, or visiting the Ingleborough area caves from the clubs in Horton. The scene of many an accident, we once came across a shiny Porsche lying on its roof in the verge, and shortly thereafter found a gentleman running towards Austwick in some haste. Most mishaps tend to be less serious, taking corners off cars and walls when meeting someone coming the other way, mostly in daylight. After the pub, it's dark and people have headlights...text/html2023-08-07T18:52:56+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.125321 -2.292677SD8069 : Occupation bridge over the track from Helwith Bridge
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The bridge allows access to fields between the railway and River Ribble, south of Cargghill Farm, but the track doesn't go all the way to the arm. The public footpath goes all the way to Horton in Ribblesdale, and is designated as the Ribble Way hereabouts. The Railway is the old Midland Railway line from Settle to Carlisle, picking a difficult route over the fells to compete with the London and North Western Railway. Although threatened with closure at various times, it is very scenic, and so popular with tourists, keeps some slow freight off the west coast mainline, and provides a vital alternative during engineering work on the latter.text/html2023-08-07T18:34:52+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington54.418628 -1.691454NZ2002 : Fast flowing drainage in Skeeby
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Quite a lot of water flowing through Skeeby despite the fact that it hasn't rained much today.text/html2023-08-07T17:40:35+00:00https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/34816Andy Waddington53.309587 -3.755219SH8380 : Dead centre of Llandrillo parish church
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Llandrillo parish church graveyard offers the interred (or their ghosts) a splendid, if distant, view of the Little Orme beyond Penrhyn Bay.