A lovely morning in the Dales with my great friend Lucia Smith. We had a “hobble” round Hebden village and a really good brunch at the Old School Tearoom in a heated gazebo! Lucia is an artist and was taking photos for her paintings as we looked over the River Wharfe and Burnsall village from the Scuff Road. If you wonder what the reef knolls are, in prehistoric times the limestone country north of Skipton was a tropical sea, and the reef knolls were formed by coral deposits on the sea bed. I love the fact that Elbolton means “fairy hill”: our ancestors may not have known exactly what the reef knolls were but they knew they were special and different!
