FourWinds
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 18, 2005, 16:58
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Simply must be Knocknarea. Anyone who's stood near will know why ...
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/13997
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/14012
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/6491
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Jane
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 18, 2005, 23:34
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Whenever I return from my travels abroad, driving towards home from the airport up the M40, I find myself mysteriously relieved to be passing through the wonderful engineering that is the Stokenchurch cutting:
http://www.oxford-chiltern-bus-page.co.uk/upload200403/Stokenchurch-M40-cutting.jpg
As you pass down through it's chalky walls, descending back into Oxfordshire, red kites soaring overhead, Didcot power station to the far left, the lights of Oxford on the horizon... I know I'm home.
Favourite ANCIENT landscape feature? White Horse Hill, of course. You can see it from miles away.
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follow that cow
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 19, 2005, 01:15
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Rannoch Moor - bleak barren rugged primeval - a fitting portal, guardian and rite of passage to the far west and the islands.
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Pete G
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 19, 2005, 01:27
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The sea.
Everytime I look at it I feel humble.
Its been around for so long and has influenced everything that has happened on the small bits of land and shaped them all in one way or another.
Staring across a sarsen stone drift I think "The sea made that happen!"
PeteG
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Littlestone
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 19, 2005, 10:15
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The Wiltshire Downs; first seen at the age of twelve I knew then they would always be my spiritual home. The memory of their sweeping lines, colours and history kept me going through the long years of a life mostly spent in hot and dusty cities far away.
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maesi
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 19, 2005, 14:16
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my favourite would have to be swinside stone circle..it is surrounded by hills and the most memorable for me is the peace and quiet you feel when you are standing in the middle of the circle..i just stand there and enjoy it
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treaclechops
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 19, 2005, 22:07
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In <b>Oxfordshire</b>, modern day significant landscape feature: Beckley Mast:
http://www.arar93.dsl.pipex.com/mds975/masts/oxford.html (what a fascinating website)
Ancient s/l feature: Uffington Castle, seen from the path to Wayland's Smithy:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/639 (thanks to RiotGibbon)
In <b>North Wales</b>, modern day s/lf: Stanlow Oil Refinery, esp. at night from the M56:
http://www.thejudge.me.uk/Main/Not_Blog/Pictures/Stanlow.htm
and Rhug Organic Farm: http://www.rhugorganic.com/images/diary_catering.jpg
Ancient: Castell Dinas Bran, Llangollen:
http://www.jhaddy.freeserve.co.uk/images/dinasbran.jpg
Why?
Beckley Mast stands out for miles across the flatness of Oxfordshire; whenever it came into sight at the end of a journey, I knew I was nearly home - and it has nice red lights at night so air traffic know it's there.
Uffington Castle from that viewpoint is so timeless and magical it's fabulous.
Stanlow Oil Refinery is pretty hideous, really, but at night it is an industrial photographer's dream; indeed, any photographer's dream. (Incidentally, the guy who took the pic I have linked to did a bloody good job, as Brymbo is part of Wrexham, and approx. 35 miles away from Stanlow). It's also half-way to my Mum's!
Rhug Organic Farm is where we always stop for a coffee when heading westwards on adventures in Snowdonia etc; usually means a megalith will be involved . . . :o)
Castell Dinas Bran was one of the methods Kate used to seduce me; it is the most amazing landscape feature, and has to be seen from Trevor Rocks for the full impact. I shall take some piccies for TMA. A truly cracking place.
treaclechops x
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The Eternal
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 20, 2005, 19:55
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Being a climber/mountaineer/hillwalker I feel ther are no features that grip the heart like mountains.
My area is the Lakes, ther is nowhere like it, but the wilds of the Scottish Highlands keep pulling me, especially in winter.
"I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence commeth my strength."
I defy anyone not to be deeply moved by a day of sunshine and storm on a lonely ridge, or a clear night spent wandering the hills, with the stars bright against an inky sky. It on occasions like that that the feeling of the place brings a person to search their soul.
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doktoratomik
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 20, 2005, 20:08
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I LOVE Dinas Bran. Absolutely stunning location. In fact, Llangollen's pretty blessed all round really, what with the mountains, steam railway, awesome river, canal, Valle Crucis abbey, horseshoe pass, etc etc etc.
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Kozmik_Ken
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Re: Your favourite 'significant landscape feat...
Mar 21, 2005, 08:51
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Castle Hill in Huddersfield. I grew up looking at it through my bedroom window and always know I'm back on my patch when I catch first sight of it again.
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