Brook Vessons was a mining village in Shropshire. Situated on a hillside by the Stiper Stones, it must have made for a remote and, at times, bleak place to live. And then the mine closed. The village was abandoned in th eearly twentieth century. This…
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This year’s INSIGHT picture is a new drawing of an old favourite subject. There is a little group of beech trees on the henge at Avebury, Wiltshire that have a particularly impressive set of roots visible. I think that they are called the three sisters…
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This is another scene from my walk in the Shropshire hills in January. The wall alongside the track I was following had fallen into disrepair some time ago, and had been populated by holly, rowan and oak. This was near the top of the Stiper…
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This shows rowan trees atop a tumbledown dry stone wall at Brook Vessons nature reserve in Shropshire. The location, which I visited in January and would like to return to in a milder month, is part of a derelict hillside mining village abandoned in the…
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