Thursday 10 October 2013

Britain's Holloways, Dorset Holloways


Article by Robert Macfarlane in Orion Magazine, May/June 2008

See also, June 2013 posting on Robert Macfarlane

Guardian review of Holloway

More on Holloways

Stanley Dodwood

North Stoke blog

Another blog

From The Wild Places

Gilbert White, Natural History of Selborne

James Russell

John Vallins - The silent way that was once a main road - Melbury Abbas, Dorset -  Dinah’s Hollow is an outstanding example of a holloway, carved out by centuries of wear, the tread of feet and horses’ hooves, the furrows made by cartwheels, the rain, and the weight of modern traffic

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