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Wood
Lune Gorge, Howgill Fells, Cumbria. Theme - Miscellaneous Other themes: Mountains |
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This
wood is well known locally, and several theories circulate about its origin.
These usually involve a farmer, or motorway or railway workers planting
it as a memorial to a lost friend or relative. For the latest view you
can find an interview with Hilary Wilson, the current owner of the wood,
at http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/sense_of_place/series2/prog_4_m6.shtml..
She found the wood on an 1841 map, then named Broken Gill Wood, and planted with conifers rather than the current deciduous trees. She thinks that it originally had straight upper and lower edges, and it is the way that the trees have grown which have since produced the "heart" shape. She could well be right. What happened to the conifers? |
