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L'Axe majeur - Cergy - France
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A landscape that will take your breath away. Towering hills, sheer rock faces, swathes of open moorland, a picturesque reservoir - that's Dove Stone, the northern gateway to the Peak District National Park.
Walking, climbing, running, playing, cycling and even sailing. If you're into adrenalin-pumping activity or simply want to chill out surrounded by amazing wildlife, streams, waterfalls and woodland, then Dove Stone is a must.
At this stunning site, we're working with United Utilities to bring benefits for people, water and wildlife.
Opening times
Open at all times.
Entrance charges
Entrance to the reserve is free. Parking is free for RSPB members, but there is a parking charge for non-members.
Information for families
There are lots of natural areas to play and explore, but no formal facilities. Some events will include family activities like quizzes or trails.
Information for dog owners
Dogs are allowed anywhere. We would request that they are kept on a lead, as most of the reserve comprises of working sheep farms.
Star species
Our star species are some of the most interesting birds you may see on your visit to the reserve.
Curlew
Curlews are large, brown wading birds with very long, curved bills. In spring, you can hear their gorgeous, 'bubbling' song.
Golden plover
In their breeding plumage, golden plovers look very smart with black undersides and spangled golden backs.
Peregrine
Keep an eye out for a commotion among birds - a peregrine may be making a fly past. They are a regular sight overhead when a pair is nesting in the area.
Raven
You can see ravens' plummeting display flights from late winter, through the spring and hear their gruff, ringing 'kronk' calls throughout the year here.
Red grouse
Listen out for sharp 'go back, go back' of the red grouse, or watch them flying across the heather.
Seasonal highlights
Each season brings a different experience at our nature reserves. In spring, the air is filled with birdsong as they compete to establish territories and attract a mate. In summer, look out for young birds making their first venture into the outside world. Autumn brings large movements of migrating birds - some heading south to a warmer climate, others seeking refuge in the UK from the cold Arctic winter. In winter, look out for large flocks of birds gathering to feed, or flying at dusk to form large roosts to keep warm.
Spring
See ravens and peregrine squabbling on the quarry cliffs. Curlews and lapwings breed on the in-bye fields, wheatears and ring ouzels on the moorland edge with golden plovers on the open moor. Dunlins may also make an appearance.
Summer
Canada geese love to breed on the open moor. Dippers race up and down the brooks and streams, and keep an eye out for water voles on the moorland streams.
Autumn
Watch out for meadow pipits, fieldfares and redwings moving through. You could also see siskins and lesser redpolls.
Winter
Look for mountain hares turning white and red grouse scratching out a living amongst the heather. Mallards don't seem to mind what the weather is like and stay put.
Facilities
Facilities
•Car park : Parking is pay-and-display and costs 60 p for two hours or £1.30 all day. No height restriction and there'll be bike racks soon.
•Toilets
•Disabled toilets
•Picnic area
•Guided walks available
•Good for walking
•Pushchair friendly
How to get here
By train
Greenfield Station near Oldham - outside the station, turn right, walk down the hill following main road (A669), follow sharp left bend, pass Tesco on the left and continue to mini-roundabout with pub on corner. Turn left up Holmfirth Road (A635). Turn right at brown sign for Dove Stone reservoir.
By road
To get to Dove Stone, go through Greenfield village on the A669 towards Holmfirth. At the mini roundabout, turn left up the hill on Holmfirth Road A635. After 500 m, turn right onto Bank Lane. There's a brown signpost for Dove Stone reservoir. Crowden car park is off the A628 Woodhead Road in the Longdendale Valley.
Accessibility
11 February 2013
Before you visit
•Open all year
•Free, apart from car parking charges
•No RSPB visitor centre, café, shop or office but regular RSPB presence on site
•Car park and toilets open from 7 am to 10 pm, April to October; from 7 am to 7 pm, November to March
•Registered assistance dogs and other dogs (on leads from March to July) welcome.
How to get here
•Directions on RSPB website
Car parking
•Main car park just outside Greenfield. 117 spaces plus four Blue Badge bays
•Smaller RSPB car park at Binn Green, off the A635 Greenfield to Holmfirth road. 18 spaces plus three Blue Badge bays
•Charge for both. 60p for three hours or £1.80 for the day. Free to Blue Badge holders and RSPB members.
•No height restrictions.
Nature trails
•Main visitor trail part tarmac, part gravel surfaced 2.5 mile (4 km) circular route around Dove Stone Reservoir. Fairly level but steep in two places. Radar keys are required to access stock gates. Starts about 50m from the Blue Badge bays in main car park
•Wooden benches (most with backs and some with arms) at fairly regular intervals along path
•1.5 mile (2 km) trail around adjacent Yeoman Hey Reservoir. Rough, undulating grassy track and can be muddy
•Part Tarmac/part gravel steep track up to Chew Reservoir, 1.5 miles (2.5 km)
•Access to reservoirs and woodland trails from RSPB car park down a 1.5 mile (2.5 km) steep woodland track with steps and narrow stone stile
•Several informal woodland trails as well as large areas of open access countryside.
Viewing facilities
•Viewpoint at Binn Green car park up short, wide, surfaced track
•Woodland bird feeding zone in both car parks.
Picnic area
•A formal picnic area at Ashway Gap half way round main Dove Stone trail
•Five picnic tables and benches, including two accessible tables
•Wooden benches in main car park and Log benches at Binn Green. No tables at either.
Catering
•Hot food and ice cream van in main car park in good weather
•Variety of pubs and cafes in nearby Greenfield, Mossley and Uppermill.
Public toilets
•Main car park (managed by Oldham Council). Accessible toilet for use with RADAR key and unisex facilities
•Binn Green car park - male and female accessible composting toilets. No RADAR key required
•No baby changing at either.
Future plans
•Plans to improve the gravel surfaces around the site to make them easier for wheelchair access
•Plans to provide way marker signage for the main trails.
For more information
Dove Stone
Telephone:01457 819880
Moorland magic
We all know that the wild, moorland landscape above Dove Stones is breathtakingly beautiful. But did you know that it is incredibly important to both wildlife and people?
These moorlands supply the water that comes out of our taps.
If the moorland is badly managed, regularly burned, or overgrazed by sheep, it exposes the bare peat. The peat is then easily washed away by rain and gets into the streams, turning the water brown, the colour of stewed tea!
But, if we manage the moorlands well and protect the peat by growing sphagnum mosses, bilberry and heather, then the colour of the water is much improved.
On your walks, watch the skies for thrilling aerial displays from the fastest bird in the world - the peregrine
The peat has taken more than 5,000 years to develop. It is made up of dead sphagnum mosses and has locked up thousands of tonnes of carbon.
If the peat loses its cover of vegetation, the carbon is released into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and climate change.
However, if we can ensure the continued growth of the mosses that form the peat, not only can we reduce the losses, but the bogs can actually soak up additional carbon from the atmosphere, helping buffer both ourselves and wildlife from the effects of a warming climate.
The Dove Stones moors are a special place for wildlife. On your walks, watch the skies for thrilling aerial displays from the fastest bird in the world - the peregrine.
In winter, you might be lucky enough to see snow-white mountain hares racing across the plateau; while spring signals the return of the moorland dawn chorus, with bubbling calls of curlews and the plaintive whistle of a golden plover.
The streams feeding into the reservoir are not only a great place for a paddle, they are also home to endangered creatures like water voles (Ratty from Wind in the Willows) and the delightful dipper. Did you know they keep their eyes open underwater as they search for insects to eat?
So you see, Dove Stone is a wonderful place for people, water and wildlife. We want to keep it that way – will you help us?
Community, youth and education
Access to Nature is a community, youth and education project with both on-site events and outreach sessions. The project is funded by Natural England, through Access to Nature, as part of the Big Lottery Fund's Changing Spaces programme.
What we offer
Keep an eye on the events pages for a wide range of activities and guided walks. For schools and groups we offer tailor made sessions and bespoke training for teachers and leaders with RSPB staff and other experts.
Conservation, wildlife, art, photography, drama, storytelling, debates, walks and skills training are just some of the things the project has provided so far.
Contact
Rachel Downham
Community Engagement Officer
Email: rachel.downham@rspb.org.uk
07825 022 636
Geoff de Boer
Education Officer
Email: geoff.deboer@rspb.org.uk
Tel: 01457 819 884 / 07801 135 106
Contact us
Tel: 01457 819880
Where is it?
Lat/lng: 53.529355,-1.981482
Postcode: OL3 7NE
Grid reference: SE013036
Nearest town: Mossley, Greater Manchester
County: Greater Manchester
Country: England
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THE FROND OF THE DEER
The stag comes guiding the light from the East to the land’s end, over there where the sun melts into the sea for love. The light comes to outline the glorious gateway below which the secret fountains sound, and even to sketch the bridge in the round arch that echoes the song. The stag/light comes back to life at the pace that, renewed, arises from its own trace.
The sound that blooms in the arboreal lyre of the heart comes from silence. Pink Lyric on which the dew lies down its dark clarity. Pink that makes up the breeze and goes with the wind. The doe was running and did not know about the ravines, high grass grows between its breasts of impatience; meteors, bits of sky covered its thighs and even its soul, that was turning green; naked water in its eyes, its look full of lilies, the doe was running and did not know about the ravines.
The stag is thirsty and drinks lovesickness. Wound that won’t heal. In its mouth, a golden piece of grass.
In the frond of the deer, the druids stave off melancholy with the magic of flowers.
Everything dances in mysterious harmony.
The Maroot lies dead and wrapped up in the stag’s skin.
A temperate air. A rope that holds one’s breath. An electric vibration. The shining of metals. The root that beats on time.
What can you call what sustains this music, what brings with it and takes from us something unapproachable but that fondles us and it is never played the same way again?
Could it be the glittering Absence? Could it be the Sea? High sea of the taken sea.
Eva Veiga
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A FRONDA DOS CERVOS
Vén o cervo guiando a luz dende oriente até o fin da terra, alí onde o sol se funde por amor no mar.
Vén a luz perfilar o pórtico glorioso baixo do que soan as secretas fontes, e mesmo trazar a ponte en arco de medio punto que se fai eco da cantiga. Vén o cervo-luz renacer no ritmo que anovado agroma do seu propio rastro.
Vén do silencio o son que florea na lira arbórea do corazón. Lírica Rosa na que o orballo deita a súa escura claridade. Rosa que fai brisa e foxe a prol do vento. Cerva corría que non sabía dos cavorcos, altas herbas medrábanlle entre os peitos de impaciencia; meteoros, retrincos do ceo vestíanlle as coxas e aínda a alma que verdeaba; auga espida nos seus ollos, de lirios chea a súa ollada, cerva corría que non sabía dos cavorcos.
Ten sede o cervo e bebe mal de amor. Ferida que non cura. Na boca, unha herbiña dourada.
Na fronda dos cervos, os druídas conxuran a melancolía coa maxia das flores.
Todo danza en misteriosa harmonía.
O Maroot xace morto e envolto pola pel do cervo.
Un aire temperado. Unha corda que sostén o alento. Unha vibración eléctrica. Un brillo de metais. A raíz que percute contra o tempo.
Cómo chamar a iso que sustancia esta música, iso que con ela trae e con ela de nós leva, algo inapreixable, mais que nos apalpa e xa nunca igual se toca?
Será a Ausencia que escintila? Será o Mar? Alto mar do mar levado.
Eva Veiga
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O Penedo "Cabeza de Serro" e a súa aba "Teso de María Galega", está no borde da Devesa da Rogueira; é unha xigantesca vieira verde (Circo glaciar), que se localiza entre Moreda Parada e Visuña -na serra de "O Courel"-.
A imaxe -que acompaña o poema de Eva Veiga- pertence a colección "Dez outonos no Courel" e abre o libreto do disco de DOA "A Fronda dos Cervos". Contén tamén un estudo crítico-literario das cantigas galego-portuguesas realizado por Federico Pérez.
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A must see !
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Note by Giovanna Cerise
Giovanna Cerise present “ Speculum”
(Speculum is a Latin word for mirror)
The mirror, as multiplicity and continuous playback.
The mirror, where the invisible overlaps the original and the hidden appears suddenly.
The mirror, as an illusion of which you can not do without.
The mirror as a projection in an unreal dimension.
The mirror that opens the door to ....
The visitor can interact with the environment simply going through it, resulting in different visual impressions.
The recommended setting is Sunset or Verdigris, to appreciate the nuances of the installation.
You use the mirror to tp in the tunnel
Opening Wednesday, February 18 th, 2015 01:00 pm SL TIME
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Passing through Lincoln Central is 66148 working . the 4L45 0936 Wakefield Europort - Felixstowe freightliner .
In the background is the construction of the new High Street footbridge marked by the purple cover.
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On 15/08/83 a Man Picc-Hadfield train with M59406M at this end departs from Guide Bridge. PR Collection, photo by B.Watkins
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Class 506 emu (DMBSO M59407M nearest camera) at Guide Bridge - 15/02/1981.
I suspect the unit is stabled and not in operation - not the lowered pantograph.
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© 2021 - 53A Models of Hull Collection. Scanned from the original 120 format monochrome negative; photographed by Richard Czyzewski.
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