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Dark Hedges (Black and White)

Dark Hedges, Bregagh Road

Ballymoney.

 

This beautiful avenue of beech trees was planted by the Stuart family in the eighteenth century.

 

It was intended as a compelling landscape feature to impress visitors as they approached the entrance to their Georgian mansion, Gracehill House.

 

Two centuries later, the trees remain a magnificent sight and have become one of the most photographed natural phenomena in Northern Ireland.

 

I took a fair few photographs there, and could not decide whether I liked colour, or black and white better, so I posted both on flickr. Dark hedges has been used as a setting for the popular television series, Game of thrones.

 

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Uploaded on March 28, 2014
Taken on March 26, 2014