Pot Luck

Fylingdales Moor is a huge area of heather moorland owned by the Strickland Estate but managed by the Hawk and Owl Trust as a conservation area using “traditional moorland management techniques”. The moor contains many archaeological features. The largest is this prehistoric cross dyke, three parallel ditches with earthbanks between, 780m long. Often the uniformity […]

Another exceptionally sweltering day in the Western Highlands. Sgurr nan Conbhairean, known as the ‘peak of the keeper of the hounds,’ stands proudly and beckoning. In contrast, the Munro I climbed, the smaller Carn Ghluasaid, means the ‘hill of the movement.’ These enchanting names truly captivate the imagination.

A wet trip down to Clumber Park in the Dukeries of Nottinghamshire, created from an 18th-century sporting estate by the Duke of Newcastle. The 87-acre serpentine lake was built by damming the River Poulter and took 15 years to complete. This section of the lake was not part of the original and was probably created […]

Trying to navigate my way around Hetton Lyons Country Park using the 1922 6″ to the mile Ordnance Survey map.  A lot has changed. The old surface workings of the Hetton Colliery. The heart of the colliery was to the south of the Durham, Elvet & Murton Branch railway, now a walkway/cycle path. An industrial […]

New island, new weather. We drove off the ferry at Berneray into sheets of rain, with gales on the way. The forecast promises little joy, so we will be hunkering down until the storm has had its fun. Before the worst of it, I managed to photograph Dùn an Sticir, set on a small islet […]