Dent street scene © steven ruffles cc-by-sa/2.0

2017

SD7086 : Dent street scene

Dent street scene.

Rush hour on the cobbles.

Geographical Context: Village, Rural settlement Roads, Road transport

This photo is linked from: Articles: · Images shortlisted for POTY, 2017 Galleries: · Selected tweets, Week 35 Automatic Clusters: · Cobbled Streets [12] ·

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Grid Square: SD7086, 120 images (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer: steven ruffles (more nearby)
Date Taken: Tuesday, 18 July, 2017 (more nearby)
Submitted: Friday, 21 July, 2017
Subject Location: OSGB36: SD 7051 8697 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:16.6509N 2:27.2638W
Camera Location: OSGB36: SD 7048 8697
View Direction: EAST (about 90 degrees)

Image Type (about): geograph

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SD7086 : Waterfall above Dent

These limestone river-bed slabs were once used by the clothmakers of Dent to cleanse their wool and knitted products. Robert Southey wrote about the 'terrible knitters of Dent', in the sense of how fearfully fast they knitted!
See http://www.daelnet.co.uk/features/knitting/history4.htm

Posted by Stan on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 (0 comments)