Today sees the last Square of the month, in which Becky has challenged us to find images celebrating Seven. I’ve chosen something quintessentially English. Yes, other drystone walls are available, but the sight of them marching across the landscape, identifying ancient field and pasture patterns is something I’ll always associate with a northern English landcape.
Thank you, Becky, for a month of fun and fellowship. And Squares.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Phew! No more counting! It’s been good though, and I love your drystone walls.
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Ah Jo, that’s your Englishness seeping through.
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Living on the edge of the Cotswolds, I’ve come to love drystone walls, reapired with such patience in all weathers.
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I know. I love to see drystone wallers at work. I think I could enjoy it. In the right weather of course.
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Oh, brilliant! So very English, and especially Northern English!
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‘Appen.
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What a beautiful view – or rather two views. Living with so many dry stone walls around our fields, I was genuinely surprised to discover that not everywhere has abundant stone for building.
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I knw! We’re so used to it here, aren’t we?
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We are.
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I do love the stone walls or are they fences 🤔
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Definitely walls. Or hedges if in Cornwall.
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Hedge is pushing it
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I remember that post Jude. Jo’s comment made it that I didn’t need to ask back then 😀
Thanks for the reminder
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I remember that post of Jude’s. Hedge indeed. An odd lot, the Cornish. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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fabulous walls, I do love seeing them and as you say so very northern. We do have them down here in the south, but nothing as magnificent as yours – or maybe it is your glorious wild landscapes that show them off
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They definitely help. Those in lush pasture or among fields of wheat aren’t so iconic.
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exactly
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I love the Northern England stone walls. They are very beautiful.
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They are. They’ve been here so very long too.
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My joke will be, yes they’ve existed at least since 1987 when I saw them. (and 3000 years before that!)
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Well, maybe not 3000 years …
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Just following what I read, that said they’ve been a custom since 1600 BCE!
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Oo-er. Now I know to ask my friendly neighbourhood blogger for Drystone Wall Facts!
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Aw, thanks.
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Yes, a tremendous challenge and fellowship seems a good way to express this. No drystone walls for me as not thought of photographing ours! Yet!
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Oh, they’re so photogenic. According to me, anyway!
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Dry stone dykes as we call them here!
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Dykes to you, hedges to Jude. Why not tell the truth and call them walls!
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Ha ha! Skating on thin ice. *Thinks up as many Scottishisms as possible for our visit to BofA*
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Hooray! That’d be right grand.
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So that’s what they look like. I can see what the fuss is about.
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