St Huberts The Gothic, and slightly Moomin-like, Roman Catholic church of St Hubert’s sits just outside the village of Dunsop Bridge in the Langdale valley in the Forest of Bowland. It was built to the design of English architect Edwin Pugin and opened on the 2nd of May 1865 by Bishop Richard Roskell of NottinghamContinue reading “St Hubert’s at Dunsop”
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The Old Moon
Tomorrow night, given that the weather forecast is a bit sketchy, you might be able see the full beauty of the January full moon or the ‘Old moon’ as it’s also called. The British Isles has many dark sky discovery sites which are largely free from light pollution, making them perfect places to observe astronomicalContinue reading “The Old Moon”
Baa, Ram, Ewe! An A to Z of sheep terminology
This is a basic A to Z of sheep terminology, it’s by no means exhaustive though as there are hundreds of obscure and technical terms that farmers and shepherds use, let me know if you can think of any that aren’t here. Aries The sign of the sheep, and the second half of its scientificContinue reading “Baa, Ram, Ewe! An A to Z of sheep terminology”
Yain Tain Tethera
Yain Tain Tethera ‘Yain Tain Tethera’ is a rhyming system of counting historically used by shepherds in the Bowland area, it is the local dialectic version of an ancient counting system with many variations around the British isles collectively known as ‘Yan Tan Tethera’, here is the Bowland version; Yain=1Tain=2Eddera=3Peddera=4Pit=5Tayter=6Layter=7Overa=8Covera=9Dix=10Yain-a-dix=11Tain-a-dix=12Eddera-a-dix=13Peddera-a-dix=14Bumfit=15Yain-a-bumfit=16Tain-a-bumfit=17Eddera-a-bumfit=18Peddera-a-bumfit=19Jiggit=20 Most of these ways ofContinue reading “Yain Tain Tethera”
Northwest Nature and History 