With dry stone walling still going strong in this country, Laura Drysdale spoke to a master of the craft at his Yorkshire family business. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, ...

An annual dry stone walling competition has been called "vital" for an area's wildlife and cultural identity. Professional, amateur, novice and veteran wallers will take part in the Friends of the ...

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A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...

Dry stane dykes are an integral feature of the landscape – particularly in the upland areas of the UK. The practical and aesthetic value of dry stone walls in the landscape cannot be underestimated.

Dry stone walling is an ancient craft that goes back thousands of years and remains an important means of enclosing fields in rural areas of Europe, and of constructing terraces for agriculture in ...

Dry Stone Walling is one of the oldest professions in Cumbria and is still going strong. How do you build the perfect wall? In our quest to find people who do interesting jobs we meet a dry stone ...

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HOLYOKE — When Mike Dugre, 69, began considering his legacy, he went back 400 million years for inspiration. That’s how old some of the granite is that he used to build the dry stone wall on his ...

TEN years ago dry stone walls were becoming a crumbling relic on East Lancashire’s rural landscape. But following a recent resurgence in the age-old craft, the moors and rolling hills are slowly but ...

MASTER craftsman Sean Adcock rewrote the record books when winning the 22nd North Wales open dry stone walling championship. Victory for the Penisarwaun waller in the professional catagory was his ...