Yorkshire Villages

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WILD AND REMOTE, Yorkshire's dales and moors are the last great wilderness area of England. In the windswept solitude of these uplands, where the cry of the curlew and the bleating of the sheep are often the only sounds, it is easy to feel that the rest of the world is very far away. Yet, mostly tucked away in the valleys of the streams and rivers which drain the Pennines, are countless villages built of stone and harmonizing perfectly with their surroundings.
Surprisingly, some of the most delightful villages are to be found, Hke Cawthorne, in the coal-mining area around Barnsley or, like Grassington, where lead-mining used to flourish in Upper Wharfedale. Many of these evolved for utilitarian reasons and are clearly industrial, yet retain a charm that is no less attractive for being accidental.
Yorkshireman Paul Barker has visited numerous villages and selected over 140 outstanding images from his photographic tour, which took him from the North Sea coast to the Lancashire... Tovább

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WILD AND REMOTE, Yorkshire's dales and moors are the last great wilderness area of England. In the windswept solitude of these uplands, where the cry of the curlew and the bleating of the sheep are often the only sounds, it is easy to feel that the rest of the world is very far away. Yet, mostly tucked away in the valleys of the streams and rivers which drain the Pennines, are countless villages built of stone and harmonizing perfectly with their surroundings.
Surprisingly, some of the most delightful villages are to be found, Hke Cawthorne, in the coal-mining area around Barnsley or, like Grassington, where lead-mining used to flourish in Upper Wharfedale. Many of these evolved for utilitarian reasons and are clearly industrial, yet retain a charm that is no less attractive for being accidental.
Yorkshireman Paul Barker has visited numerous villages and selected over 140 outstanding images from his photographic tour, which took him from the North Sea coast to the Lancashire border, and from the outskirts of Sheffield to the far ramparts of Swaledale. He has captured villages as diverse as peaceful seventeenth-century Giggleswick; a tiny whitewashed hamlet perched high on Cam Fell; a picturesque Haworth, moorland home of the Bronte sisters; and the hidden village of Thorpe, once used by Dalesfolk as a sanctuary from marauding Scots.
James Birdsall's commentaries on the pictures, entertaining and enthusiastic about the characters and curiosities he encountered, demonstrate that the villages which dot this captivating landscape are not merely picturesque but full of history and endlessly fascinating to explore. Vissza