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2015.08.19 - Foolow, Stanley House, Wardlow Mires, N edge Cressbrook Dale, Tansley Dale, Cressbrook Dale & up to Wardlow, White Rake, Settlement Ponds, Longstone Edge, Great Longstone, Rowland, Hassop Common, Peak Pasture, Calver Sough - leader John Taylor - Wednesday  

passing through Foolow
 
edge to north of Foolow behind
Peter's Stone in Cressbrook Dale in distance
 
Wardlow Hay Cop (with survey beacon) at top
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wardlow Mires ahead
Stanley House
 
 
Three Stags Heads
 
Peter's Stone
 
 
Litton Fields
above north end of Cressbrook Dale
 
looking south
 
Wardlow Mires to right centre
 
 
 
 
Natural england sign at Cressbrook Dale
coming down Tansley Dale (into Cressbrook Dale)
 
climbing out of Cressbrook Dale towards Wardlow
 
moving bales - tractors can spike 2 bales - one front one rear
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
dried out settlement pond
 
 
 
 
lilies in dew pond
an 'oblong' grass baler. Great Longstone behind
unit behind tractor scooping up grass
red unit behind tractor picks up grass and compress it into oblong bales & chutes this onto trailer
 
 
 
 
 
 
worn stone at bottom of slip stile shows shells embedded in limestone
near Rowland
 
cylindrical bales compressed with this machine
 
dropping a bale
2nd tractor with special unit picks up and plastic wraps bales
 
 
Highland fling?
 
 
refreshment at Calver Sough
 

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