Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: sycamore

A closer, zoomed-in view beneath the 'Lonely sycamore' over the fields of Wigley Farm on the west side of Sheffield. The prominent house just right of centre is Castle Dyke Lodge, formerly Hoyle House on old Ordnance Survey maps. Just in front of the house, in the newly harvested and harrowed fields is a small, dry valley, possibly initiated as a melt-water stream at the end of the Devensian glacial period, but no longer having any flowing water, except as a smaller feeder to a pond in the grounds of Castle Dyke house, hidden in the trees.

On a bright but hazy morning, here is another view of this rather photogenic, lonely sycamore tree, which is all that remains of a northward extension of the Bole Hill Plantation woodland on the northern edge of the Limb Valley. The cultivated field in the foreground is shown as wooded on the 1st edition six-inch to one mile Ordnance Survey map published in 1854. The western Sheffield suburb of Fulwood is visible in the distance. The city centre is just visible through the haze at the far right of the photo. Four months previoulsy, it looked like this:

Limb Valley Bole Hill lead smelting site This rather photogenic, lonely sycamore tree is all that remains of a northward extension of the Bole Hill Plantation woodland on the northern edge of the Limb Valley. The cultivated field in the foreground is shown as wooded on the 1st edition six-inch to one mile Ordnance Survey map published in 1854. The western Sheffield suburb of Fulwood is visible in the distance. There are many 'Bole Hills' in Sheffield and along the west-facing sandstone and gritstone escarpments of the Eastern Edges. Their elevated locations were ideal for wind-blown furnaces ('boles') for smelting lead ore which was brought in by pack-horses from the Peak District mines further to the west. Recommend to view large on black!