Home again, home again

[nineveh_uk]

I am back from a family holiday in Austwick with my parents and Youngest Sister. Middle Sister also dashed down with nephews for a day, because apparently she has both lots of energy and no sense of keeping it for preparing their family holiday departure yesterday to Spain. But it was nice to see them. Austwick is a small village (wih shop and primary school) for which the word "charming" was invented, and just off the A65 so highly convenient. My train to get there was inevitably the low point, and I really hope that next time I go to the area I am fit enough to drive.

Anyway, it was a great week, with bonus entertainment provided by politics. I even ate indoors twice. Though that was the start of the week - I am now back to refusing to breathe in anyone's vicinity. I was able to do at bit more than last year, particularly walking, with less ill-effects, though being in view of the three peaks and not able to do them remains frustrating. Still, there was green grass and grey crags and sheep and sheepdogs, and skies of various colours and degrees of dampness, and swifts and swallows and water and friendly cows.



Austwick across the fields


Norber erratics


Crummackdale (best dale name?)


Industrial heritage - the remains of the Hoffmann kiln at Craven lime works

Comments

[azdak]

Austwick does indeed look absolutely charming! And the Norber Erratics are a bit mind -blowing (not least for the name).

[nineveh_uk]

Austwick really is just lovely, as well as being extremely convenient for visiting other places. Pub, shop, rope swing over the river, what more is needed in a location of its type. There's even a bus!

[ruric]

I;ve not spent nearly enough time in the Dales, Moors or Peak District. Now I have a car again I must plot some weekends away!

[nineveh_uk]

I grew up in north Leeds, so know the lower Dales reasonably well (i.e. the ones we drove to for a day trip, because no-one wants an extra 45 mins in the car with three children), but I don't know the Peak District at all. I should change that.

[ruric]

I grew up in Sheffield so quite familiar with big chunks of the Peak district - we either went there for day trips with family, visited historical sites during primary and second school (hello Bakewell and Eyam) or tramped up and down hills to sites of interest (A level geography and geology). But it's been a while since I've been back!

The Dales and the Moors are more of a mystery *G*

[antisoppist]

I did not realise you can go actually inside the lime kiln. Perhaps I do not like lime kilns after all.

[nineveh_uk]

It was 100m long and you could walk all the way around the internal loop. There were also some smaller kilns you couldn't go in, but we didn't see those as not everyone's interest reached my levels and it was hot.

https://www.visitsettle.co.uk/craven-lime-works.html