Mick GarrattThe Wayward Nuns of Baysdale Abbey
This rickety cairn seems to teeter precariously over Baysdale but it has stood for at least half a century. A former resident once informed me that it was constructed by Roland Close, an estate worker and renowned local archaeologist who grew up in Shepherd's House, the ‘last’ house in the dale. Close would pass by this way on his journey to school in Kildale.
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