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These we have sold
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Dales Barn in Wensleydale, Yorkshire
This barn is in Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales in the North of England. The Yorkshire Dales National Park was established in 1954 and covers an area of 1,762 square kilometres (680 square miles). To me it is a special area of wide open spaces, grand scenery and centuries of history. The predominant building material is the indigenous limestone, used to construct walls, barns, houses and grand mansions. Many of the walls are centuries old, the oldest having been used to enclose farm animals. These are usually irregular in shape. The straighter walls (sometimes running down a hillside) were often built as a result of the Enclosure Acts awards in the 18th and 19th centuries.
But it is the barns that are such a feature of the Dales landscape. Although now frequently falling into disuse, they have provided shelter for farm animals and storage for winter fodder. Many are built in a corner where fields meet giving easy access to those fields. The construction styles vary slightly from one dale to another. I suggest that the local builder usually worked in a particular dale, giving rise to a local style of building. Roads between dales were often not easily passable and some were but mere tracks until the late 1940s.
This image shows how the lichen colonises the stonework of the barn, indicating an unpolluted atmosphere, complimented by the spring flowering of buttercups and daisies. Here is a typical scene from the Yorkshire Dales.
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