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| The drive from Settle to Newton in Bowland - just before dropping down to Slaidburn |
We park in the car park at the entrance to the village. Geoff explains ahta this wooded area was one a tip in a quarry beside the village.- You need to be told that! - It looks like nice woodland now. Then we walk down through two fields to the River Hodder
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On a fallen log in the woodland we see some "Turkey-Tails" fungi, growing next to Dog's Mercury
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. We have a virtual sweepstake to guess how many wildflowers we will see on our 2 hour walk I say 12, Geoff says 20 and .. says 16.
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| Turkey-Tails |
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| Birdwatchng beside the river. There are sandmartins on the opposite iroded bank. This part of the river was diverted 150 ish years ago so that it would go closer to and look good from the big house we would shortly walk past. |
We crossed the river. On the way back we followed a medieval trackway. Geoff said that 30 years ago there had been a lot of countryside work put into the paths of the area.
Further on the trackway we found both Opposite and Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifage
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| Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage |
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| I think these are the leaves of young Wood Stitchwort plants - I hope Geoff will go back and check later in the year. |
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| Mounds in this field were built to enable pools to form for the retting of flax |
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| Reading the climate sheets. |
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| Sloe in flower on first April as we walk back down to the village |
after visiting the Quaker burial ground
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