Hidden Goit Stock

Another wonderful morning, still with that hint of mist in the trees but that quickly disappeared.
I had breakfast and lunch sat in the garden and in between we had a stroll around the village. Intending to pass my son's house and photograph his little garden.

We met friends on the lane to Goit Stock and had a pleasant catch up and then passed celandine glowing in the sun and wood anemones in the shade by the beck as we proceeded along the lane.

About to leave the caravan park Chris got chatting to the guy who owns the house as there was major construction work going on on what had been some of his land. After discussions of planning delays etc I spotted the lions atop his gate posts and mentioned that I knew them from childhood when we used to walk down through the woods to buy ice cream and then sit on the lions (then in the garden on either side of the steps). He said there had been steps and they had moved the lions when the steps were no longer needed. He invited us to look at the land behind his house. (We had visited here for music group video evenings many years ago when someone else occupied the house and owned the park.)

The large plot had evidence of what had once been an ornamental lake ( just a smallish pond remains now) in the days when the mill building still existed and was used for tea dances. It was fascinating seeing the structures, not all easy to identify, that came from this era. You could still see the goits - mill races - from when the mill was in operation.

The main picture is Cow House Beck which comes down from Cullingworth and forms the border of his land. You cross it in the fields above the small waterfall where the path skirts the top of the woods and it can be seen where it empties into Hallas/Harden beck from the lower woods, but this bit is essentially private and hidden.

As I might not get to see it again I thought it should be my blip for today.

We continued up Leech Lane with lambs in the fields and called briefly at on my son to admire his 'garden' planted by Chris with primulas and bulbs I bought at a coffee morning in the autumn.
You can them here https://www.flickr.com/photos/16251802@N05/16878741428/in/dateposted-public/

A lovely way to spend a spring morning.