Daily Photo – Burdened
This scene of three Chinese farm workers burdened with produce on baskets suspended from yokes would be timeless but for their clothes.
This scene of three Chinese farm workers burdened with produce on baskets suspended from yokes would be timeless but for their clothes.
In the background is the Parish Church of Saint Wilfrid while in the foreground, the River Wharfe flows beneath a five arched bridge that carries the Dalesway
When I was younger I would fling my BMW 5-series (and younger still my Honda motorbike) down this hill and around the bend in the photo at over 60 mph, trusting to luck that there wouldn't be a tractor around the blind corner.
So the Four Barrows are on the ridge that separates Aldbourne Warren from North Farm. In this photo you can only see three of them, the fourth is hidden behind the stand of trees on the hillside.
As with Hellscombe Cottage there's a cottage at Aldbourne Warren that also sits snug to the base of the hill to their east. There must be some, most likely weather related, reason for this. Maybe it was close to water back in the day.
Late winter and the grasses are recovering, still no leaves on the trees but the fields are being prepared for spring wheat.