The tunnel along Horns Road

I love the tunnel formed by these trees beside Horns Road. On the right is the old cemetery rising up the hillside. On the left the steep old meadows are now the terrain of horses belonging to members of the riding stables. 

This part of the path became developed latterly into a road leading to Horns Farm, which was one of the local dairies until the 1950s. Before then a track lead up the valley, in the opposite direction to this view, and facilitated the extraction of limestone from the outcropping rock. Only the steep cliff face in the quarry remains of that industry.

Further up the valley the path allowed access to the ancient coppiced woodlands. Some of the limestone and the coppiced wood would have been combined with fire in the lime kilns to produced industrial 'lime'. The hard strata of the limestone would have been quarried to build most of the buildings in the local area. None of that happens here anymore.