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Writing tagged: ‘Calder Valley’

Stoodley Pike Monument from Trig Point 4144

Exploring my damp patch

For many years, I've sought in vain for a particular wild flower on my local patch—a plant that inspired Charles Darwin to write an entire book on insectivorous plants.

Published 07-Aug-2013
Filed under: Featured Writing, Writing Tags: amphibians, Calder Valley, Drosera rotundifolia, expeditions, favourite places, flowers, Hebden Bridge, newts, proto-sidelines, Richard Mabey, sundews, the Moor, Yorkshire
Bottle garden
Milk bottle garden.

Finding new ways

How plants can end up in the strangest of places.

Published 11-Jul-2013
Filed under: Writing Tags: Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, On the Moor (book), proto-sidelines, the Moor, Yorkshire
Urnfield
Bronze Age Urnfield.

The Thomas Browne Affair

On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.

Published 27-Jun-2013
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: archaeology, Calder Valley, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, On the Moor (book), the Moor, Thomas Browne, W.G. Sebald

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