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Recently Hill Wood Pasture has been identified as an important historic farmed habitat. In the Cheviots there would have been Juniper on the higher ground, then Ash/Birch lower down and finally Alder in the valley floor. Here's one of the few surviving Northumbrian examples, some Juniper on the hill and Alder in the valley floor. Cattle would've grazed the pasture around these trees, protected from the worst of the weather.
#Habitat #Nature #Ecology #Cheviots #Northumberland

Late autumn view from an elevated position down over a moorland valley with predominately brown bracken, some evergreen Juniper in the foreground and Alder woodland in the valley floor. The Alder woodland is fenced to keep deer & sheep out and allow regeneration.

Some pics from today's walk from Hethpool to the Border (and beyond!)

https://sarahdal.github.io/northumberland/2025/02/02/BorderStones.html

#Northumberland #Cairns #Cheviots

the Cairn on Great Hetha, a pile of rocks on the summit of a grassy hill. It's early morning and the sky is hazy. Beyond, in the distance, a valley leads away to the foot of The Cheviot, with patches of snow still on his flat top

Eccles Cairn, near the border, another pile of rocks on a grassy hill with more Cheviot hills behind

Looking over the border wall to a central hill on which can be faintly seen the earthworks of an Iron Age Hill Fort of Green Humbleton

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Yesterday I just got rain #Cheviots

View off Hartside Hill, Breamish Valley,
#Northumberland

#Cheviots
today

Sunlit hillside with sheep grazing the foreground. The background hill has a few small snow patches

#dodlaw #Doddington #northumberland #wooler #england #uk #britain #landscape #cheviots #cheviot #mountains #landscape #landscapephotography #northeastcaptures

St Cuthbert's Way #northumberland #cheviots

23km walk today from Hethpool up the border rigg to The Curr, then back along lovely College Valley.

I passed the site of three plane crashes from World War 2 - there's 19 in total in this part of the hills.

#Northumberland #Cheviots #CollegeValley

A very green view looking down steep slopes across to a stream draining hills in the distance.

The foreground here is the site of the crash of the DORNIER 217 U5+DL German Aircraft which crashed here on 15th March 1943

Some twisted metal and rusting pipe lie in a small area of bare, rocky ground on a grassy slope. Away to the north under a cloudy sky, green hills stretch down to Scottish Border's countryside to the horizon.

This is the remains of a De Havilland Mosquito, which crashed on 12 December 1944, killing pilot Henry Medcalf (27) and navigator Ronald Bellamy (21)

A memorial post , a black plaque on a square wooden post, lies as grassy ground slopes steeply down to a hidden burn. Hillsides criss cross to a high ridge in the distnace under a grey sky.

This is the marker post for the crash of a Hawker Hurricane on 2 June 1943, killing its pilot Sgt G R Dawson RAFVR aged 23 years:

In Memory Of
1393903 Sergeant
George Robert Dawson
RAFVR +

2nd June 1943

Age 23

Hawker Hurricane V6860

59 OTU
RAF Milfield

The Cheviot Memorial.

A black stone engraved in gold with the following stands on a round plinth, on which 5 poppy wreaths have been placed:

"Dedicated to the memory of the airmen who lost their lives on the Cheviot Hills as a result of the Second World War"

Then the emblem of the RAF

"Per Ardua Ad Astra"

on top of the stone is an engraved panel that lists all 19 crashes in the hills, and their details. The area enclosed by a dry stone wall and red chippings are on the ground. Behind, the beuatiful College valley, with green and wooded hills, sits under a cloudy sky

Wideopen Hill, #Cheviots today. A bit wet at time but a good day out. Very good descent on the bike. Because of the #StCuthbertsWay we met other people, unusual in the Scottish bit of the range.

Path on grassy hills with two tops in the middle distance dropping steeply to the left (north). Light rain falling.

Clennell Street, Cheviots
📷 Canon 300V 🎞️ Fomopan 200
#BelieveInFilm #BlackAndWhitePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Northumberland #Cheviots

A grassy hilltop with a quad track leading across the hill to the distance. Clennell Street, Cheviots

06:50-11:30 09/05/2023 #HarthopeValley #Wooler #Northumberland #Cheviots #UKbirds #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdphotography
Just a list of birds with some naff photographs :- 2 Common Cuckoo, 1 Eurasian Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 10 Sand Martin, 8 Barn Swallow, 8 House Martin, 11 Willow Warbler, 8 Common Chiffchaff, 5 Eurasian Blackcap, 1 Common Whitethroat, 3 White-throated Dipper, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 1 Common Redstart, 2 Whinchat, 1 Nothern Wheatear, 2 Grey Wagtail plus ...

White-throated Dipper in rocky stream habitat

One more completed #project on this #snowy #saturday . This #harmankardon Twin 730 #receiver is an absolute beast. The #cheviots are singing. One of the best I have tested recently in that power range.

#hifi #hifiaudio #vintage #vintageaudio #vintageaudiogear #stereo #stereophile #audio #hifiporn #hifisound #hobby #retro #music #tannoy #aylmer #gatineau #ottawa #hifiporn #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylove #vinylcommunity #listeningroom

Just playing around with new Sony DSC-RX10M4 #GreyHeron #UKBirds #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #WoolerCommon #Cheviots

Grey Heron next pond at Wooler Common in the Cheviots, Northumberland, England

From the Guardian: Country diary 1973: minor roads of the Scottish Borders offer rich rewards https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/13/country-diary-1973-minor-roads-of-the-scottish-borders-offer-rich-rewards #ScottishBorders #Scotland #Countryside #Rural #Roads #Eskdalemuir #Hawick #StMarysLoch #Cheviots #Lammermuirs #Moorfoots #BerwickUponTweed

Anyone else with their live tracking app open following the Spine Race as the two front runners near the finish?

#Spine #PennineWay #PennineRace #Montane #Cheviots #Ultrarunning

Jack Scott has opened a gap over Damian Hall, but has a 40 minute time penalty. Can he create a large enough gap with only 3 miles left? My guess is he is about a mile ahead. Not often do two markers on a map become compelling viewing - well not all the time, but looking every few minutes.

https://live.opentracking.co.uk/spinerace23/

A favourite Northumbrian viewpoint of mine, not least because it's from the roadside!
Pretty much everything in that view is artificial - i.e. the result of human activity. It's as manicured as a golf course, in it's own way.
#Northumberland #Landscape #Cheviots #Photography

Broad landscape of Cheviot Hills in distance and rolling farmland in fore and mid ground. On a late wintry afternoon.

I went for a long walk in the hills with a friend and her hound today, and this is my favourite photograph of the day. Taken before it started snowing.
#Walking #WinterWalks #Northumberland #Cheviots

A green grassy path winds through longer golden brown wild grasses over hills to the horizon. The sky is a dark and stormy grey, but bright sunshine illuminates the foreground. The sun is behind the viewer, and two out of shot figures are casting long shadows. A lurcher type dog in a blue coat strides ahead on the path, unspooling his extending lead.

Continuing our watch of the Gaelic programme walking from Melrose to Lindisfarne. We recorded it and are slowly getting through it. Onto episode 3 which goes from Monteviot to Kirk Yetholm. So getting into my granny’s home country. The iPlayer version of this episode is only online until Monday evening coming. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dhjf/slighe-naoimh-cuithbeirtst-cuthberts-way-series-1-episode-3
#Gaelic #Gaidlig #ScottishBorders #Walking #StCuthbertsWay #Roxburghshire #Scotland #Cheviots #CheviotHills #BorderReivers

Just drawing up a list of ancestors I’ll be looking for soon if as hoped the Scottish 1921 census is put online today. Even just grandparents and their siblings and great grandparents and their siblings it’s a long list! Many in Melrose. Some near the Cheviots. Others location by then unknown.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #1921census #Census #Scotland #ScottishBorders #Melrose #Cheviots

Four seasons in one day.

#Northumberland #Landscape
#Cheviots #Borders

Good morning, fellow humans. 🌅

Here’s a recent picture of a distant #Yetholm that I took from atop Green Humbleton; an #IronAge #Hillfort with a double wall that sits in the #Halterburn valley. The #PennineWay passes the base of this small hill.

You can see the outer wall of the #fort in the foreground of this picture.

The hill opposite is #Staerough, which looms over Yetholm.

#ScottishBorders #Autumn
#Cheviots
#HillWalking #Rambling

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