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October 2005 - Hail fell, well met'

“I like to walk on Farleton Fell early in the morning to catch the sun rise or late on a winter's afternoon to marvel at the beautiful sunset. From the summit the view looks north to what is now called Cumbria , west over Morecambe Bay , south across Lancashire and east towards the hills of North Yorkshire .”

The fell, along with neighbouring Holme Park Fell, is the site of some of the world's finest limestone pavement - outcrops of rock whose surface has been dissolved by water over millions of years into a strange and unique “paving block” surface. The rocks give an other-worldly feel to the photographs and have affected the landscape in many ways.This is the most characteristic feature of limestone paving; the blocks are called clints and deep fissures grikes. It is in these grikes that flowers and ferns manage to find shelter to survive. Any trees that grow on lime stone paving struggle for nutrients from the poor quality soil and remain stunted and twisted into incredible shapes. This really is a landscape that time forgot.