The Dentdale Story
A walk through time up Flintergill Outrake Nature Trail
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Continuing on once more there is time to appreciate the wonderful variety of trees in the Gill, from the canopy of newly regenerated oaks to the glistening hollies, graceful ash and nodding hazels. Note also in season the carpets of bluebells and other native wild flowers (orchids) that star its banks.
And as you plod every onwards and upwards think too of the many weary packmen who came this way in the old days, "sniggin" their often back-breaking portable loads of domestic necessities, as well as perhaps a few little luxuries such as ribbons, laces and other simple vanities, to cheer the often bleak lives of the hardworking womenfolk of the Dales. The photos below show the quarry (No.7 on the map).
Limestone was quarried here to feed the limekiln.
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