Photos by Andy Savin.
Photo by Tim Wetherell.
So many of our followers on Facebook and Twitter shared their outstanding images with us, that we thought it would all be too much in one big file for the month. Here is therefore the gallery of all photos posted in the first week of November. The next gallery, containing this week’s photos, will be published in a week.
Sit back and enjoy!
(PS Click on the image to see the photo in full)
Photo by Julia Amies-Green taken on 6 October 2016: “Beautiful light on the moor last evening as the sun was setting.”
Mature beech hedges are a distinctive feature of Exmoor. They provide shelter to livestock and crops, are home to valuable wildlife, and an important historical record of human activity in the area. Usually they can be found on top of earth banks, some of them 2 metres high. It is thought that some of these hedge walls go back 1000 years.
The Knight family of Simonsbath used beech extensively in the mid 19th century during their huge moorland reclamation project as did the Acland family who had a large estate on the moor. Following experiments, they found that beech was the best choice to top the banks as it grows higher on Exmoor than anywhere else and is of little logging value. When thinned and layed properly, it forms a good wind and stock-proof barrier.
(Source: Everything Exmoor)
“Red Deer Group on the beautiful Exmoor moors late Friday afternoon. Love winter on Exmoor :)”
Words & picture by Liz Mitchell (Twitter @exmoorwinegirl)
Prayway head this morning, 14 January 2015. Photo by Nicola Friedrich
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Photo by John Shortland
Photo by Mike Watson
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