Ward's End

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I don't know if there was a Ward who built this farmstead at the end of the cultivated land, on the edge of the moor of the Bowland Fells. However, looking at the ruin today, I can't help but feel that it was well-named!

QUOTO
"All beauteous things for which we live
By laws of time and space decay.
But oh, the very reason why
I clasp them, is because they die."
William Johnson Cory (1823-1892), English poet

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photograph (c) T. Boughen

A hill farm

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The sunlight has pierced the clouds over this hill farm in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, and revealed that spring arrives later on the English uplands.

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"Yain, Tain, Eddera, Peddera, Pit, Tayter, Layter, Overa, Covera, Dix", (the old words for 1-10 that Forest of Bowland farmers used when counting sheep),
R. Waterworth

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photograph (c) T. Boughen