There's a minor road out of Ribblesdale from Stainforth that goes over the fells to the hamlet of Halton Gill in Littondale, which then joins up with Wharfedale. There is very little up there apart from a couple of farms and their stone barns, and quite a few hardy Yorkshire sheep. The scenery, however, is magnificent. The Pennine Way follows the road for a short distance before climbing to the trig point on the western end of Pen y Ghent (the 'whale hump' mountain in my photo below) and then dropping down into Horton in Ribblesdale. It's wild and all very beautiful in a minimalistic way.
It was so windy up there that I took these photos from the safety of the car, through its open window!
You were brave to even open the car window up there on a windy day!
ReplyDeleteA marvelous landscape.
ReplyDeleteWindy definitely goes with those hills, though sheep don't seem to be bothered.
ReplyDeleteLove the 2nd shot with the old barn.
ReplyDeleteBleak and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI love it. Open skies and open land. Kind of in the spirit of where I grew up and still live. No forests for me, no coziness please. MInimalism for sure.
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