I was booked for shopping chauffeur duties today, Booth’s of Clitheroe, so had a look at the map last night and two places caught my eye Walloper Well and Sulphur Spa
How many people have zoomed past and missed this ? on a corner at the top of a steep hill
and looking down hill
We were heading left into the descending weather
parked by the lane end to Crimpton
and through the "sterile plantation" I won't say wood
to the streams on the other side
soon found the Spa, you could smell it, but not sulphur more just bad ?
the Bear liked it though and had a paddle
I didn't quite expect marble steps and a plunge pool but being within a couple hundred yards of a Roman road (see map) and called a Spa ? maybe 2000 years of silt are hiding them ?
spotted a tree
which the Bear says walks about on, foggy, full moon nights !
carried on down the road and turned right for Whitewell at the Cow Ark crossroads spotted the quarry as we drove passed and thought I'd
glimpsed a tunnel
parked up and walked back
closer and adding it to the Limestone quarry, it had to be a Limekiln
the Bear said it was a Liverwort Hotel
on the top
there was camoflage in action
Nature re-claiming
the whole cliff face was covered in fossil Crinoids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid
back to the car
I've used windows paint to stitch two photos
just thought I'd share, cheers all Danny
Hi Danny,
ReplyDeleteI think you've inspired me to visit the area! But you know me, Trig Point obsessed - so I think I'd have a stroll up onto Waddington Fell aswell :)
Nice post, thanks for sharing.
Hi Steve, there's a Trig 510 yards from the Sulphur Spa on Browsholme Heights, and driving through, the whole area is criss crossed by (signed) footpaths.
ReplyDeletecheers Danny
Thanks Danny. The Forest of Bowland area looks great. But to a non-driver, a tad hard to get to!
ReplyDeleteThanks - Steve
Train to Settle then Little Red Bus ?
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cheers Danny
That's not the type of spa you'd take an elderly aunt to for its envigourating waters. Interesting though. It's amazing how many small though fascinating features are tucked away in the countryside, most of them never visited or photographed. First rate lime kiln, by the way, Danny.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Alen McF
Hi Alen, depends if the Aunts rich and you've a large enough sack ! but it's well hidden and the Limekiln was coal fired by the amount of slag clinkers and coal bits about.
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Danny,
ReplyDeleteYour tours of England are fantastic. We in America have a perception that England consists only of cities and Royalty. Thank you for sharing with us on the other side of the pond. John Hall from the land of bad beer.
Hi John, the Bear says he is Royalty ! but compared to the USA we're a tiny, overcrowded, island almost so you have to hunt the wild bits out. There must be a couple of generations at least who've never been off pavement and always under street lights at night, and think food comes from the supermarket.
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Looks like you made a virtue of necessity there Danny. So much to see! I can well imagine that tree going walkabout, and that is an enormous limekiln. What kind of ducks were they do you think?
ReplyDeleteHi Mark,Walkabout - Ent ? and the Limekiln was that big at first it looked like a railway tunnel and I thought mine ? and aren't all ducks Mallards.
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hiDaD ...you took a good blog of photo's ...there a river not far from here...mum's been there ' i think you've a photo of it and in the stream its known that it contains sulphur in it...you can actually smell it in the air..the crinoids are interesting... it just goes to show the past is always present!!!.... the photo with the birds are they quails? thankyou looks like you mum & teddy had a good tour....big hug xxxxxxxxjustine
DeleteHello Justine, better late than never Eh ? Mum can remember the river and being asked to smell some-one's arm who'd swum in it ! ?
Deletethe birds are baby mallard ducks (ducklings)and their mum. thanks for the comment Dad