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 Winter Solstice:  A rather ethereal walk in the fog to Standingstones Rigg, through an eerie fir forest.  The stone seems to be near  Fylingsdale moor, home to the 'listening ear' that dominates the landscape.

Winter Solstice – Standingstones Rigg – The Smell of Water

This is a favourite long  barrow Stoney Littleton.  The sun shines through the entrance to hit the back wall on Solstice.  The barrow is angled on an upward slope, so that the sun shines down into the barrow as it tips the hill.  It's greatest treasure though is the large ammonite stone at its entrance. I often came here to escape life and find peace.  My Solstice place by the way.

Stoney Littleton Chambered Cairn : The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map:

The family are here. Matilda complaining on that 'hell hole' of a train but we would be lost without the trains.  And as Australian Andrew, for which many thanks, gave me a link to our railway station in Todmorden, I delved deeper.  There is through part of the Caldervale four viaducts to take the railway over rivers and canals, the one just outside Todmorden is called Gauxholme Viaduct.  And we have a fairly rare bridge that dominates the town just by the market.

The Ammonite stone at Stoney Littleton