drystone

By this time, it was full dark, and we turned north onto Ye Old Windham Road (also Route 97/Hampton Road), a narrow two-lane affair bordered by dense tangles of hardwoods and greenbriars, drystone walls and pastureland.

"I'd rather not," the cat remarked. greygirlbeast 2010

And everywhere were drystone walls, and the ruddy buds and silvery bark of red maples.

"Only mustard isn't a bird," Alice remarked. greygirlbeast 2010

Public money funded new tracks for walkers and the repair of drystone walls; another £2.6m, via grants from Argyll and Bute council, Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund, is about to be spent on Rothesay's decrepit town centre; with any luck, £8m more will be found to restore the town's pavilion, which is the finest piece of 1930s modernism in Scotland, the northern equivalent of the De La Warr pavilion in Bexhill.

Could rebranding Bute as a middle-class holiday haven halt its decline? | Ian Jack 2011

By this time, it was full dark, and we turned north onto Ye Old Windham Road (also Route 97/Hampton Road), a narrow two-lane affair bordered by dense tangles of hardwoods and greenbriars, drystone walls and pastureland.

"I'd rather not," the cat remarked. greygirlbeast 2010

Beyond the complexity of drystone walls around the tributaries of Ewden Brook, the broad, gently inclining slopes of Broomhead Moor lead our eyes to the far crest of Margery Hill and Featherbed Moss, now dim with that prospect of rain.

Country diary: Langsett 2011

Public money funded new tracks for walkers and the repair of drystone walls; another £2.6m, via grants from Argyll and Bute council, Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund, is about to be spent on Rothesay's decrepit town centre; with any luck, £8m more will be found to restore the town's pavilion, which is the finest piece of 1930s modernism in Scotland, the northern equivalent of the De La Warr pavilion in Bexhill.

Could rebranding Bute as a middle-class holiday haven halt its decline? | Ian Jack 2011

He insisted that such an individual should repair a drystone wall "if he chances to bring it down while crossing it" – a common probability in limestone country where the misshapen stones don't sit easily upon their brethren.

Country diary: Langsett 2011

A half-woken stoat peeped scaredly from its lair in a drystone wall and a skinny old doe stood alert and watchful on a limestone outcrop.

City of Bohane by Kevin Barry – review 2011

As I walked down the side of a drystone wall the other day I noticed a young woman levelling a veritable range of molehills with a fork.

Country diary: North Derbyshire 2011

Yesterday a 1960s Olympia 463 sailplane landed as light as that proverbial feather in Grasmere, albeit skimming a drystone wall at 50mph to slide along the grass after 100 yards and just before another wall loomed ominously ahead.

Country diary: Grasmere, Lake District 2011