Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 24 October 2022

  • Old hedgerow, Airy Holme

    Old hedgerow, Airy Holme

    A few scraggy hawthorn trees. A relic of an old hedgerow. The lower branches have been well browsed by sheep. A boundary is shown on the Ordnance Survey Six-Inch map of 1856. It is commonly believed that the age of a hedge can be estimated by counting the number of species in it. True, the longer…