A Day in the Dales

We spent a very pleasant evening in the Tudor House B&B on the Edge of the Yorkshire Dales.

Then we traveled across the Dales on the way to collect Brett after his Conference.  The trip was full of interest even though is was (in some ways) a fairly forbidding and stark landscape.

I am sure that the Dales in winter would be a very tough location - last winter it dropped to -17 degrees on occasions.  The pic shows a section of road that is a positive boulevard in comparion to some sections.  The high stone fences are everywhere, sometimes enclosing tiny spaces.  It hardly seems worth the effort!
The buildings are all made of limestone blocks cut from the local stone.  We visited a medieval church that was still in operation.  The vicars wife had recently spent 2 weeks in Mt Waverly.  Small world.

The place still had the old boxed pews and the hollows on the support columns used to contain statues of Saints.  They were removed by Oliver Cromwell's men during the English Civil War.  Things are old aound here!