Phil's walk today started at Barnack Hills and Holes Nature Reserve before heading north to Stamford and back through Burghley Park. Here are some photographs.
The hummocky landscape of the Hills and Holes was created by
quarrying for limestone. The stone, known as Barnack Rag, was a valuable
building stone first exploited by the Romans over 1500 years ago.
Quarrying continued in mediaeval times when the Abbeys at Peterborough,
Crowland, Ramsey, Sawtry and Bury St. Edmunds all used Barnack stone.
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| River Welland |
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| Route of the 9½ mile (15.3 km) Stamford Canal to Market Deeping - one of the earliest post-Roman canals in England. It opened in 1670, around 100 years before the start of the Industrial Revolution. |
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| St Leonard's Priory - jointly refounded by William the Conqueror and the Bishop of Durham in about 1082 |
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| River Welland in Stamford |
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| View of Stamford from Burghley Park |
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| Burghley Park - on Ermine Street |
