Dry Stone Walls

This typographic representation of a dry stone wall borrows the words from one of my favourite poems ‘Wall’ by Norman Nicholson. They are wonderful things. It is hard to think of Lakeland without its dry stone walls. They can be anything from a hundred to a thousand years old, and are slowly disappearing. In recent years the National Trust and local farmers have embarked on a programme of restoring the walls. On the fells in bad weather they provide shelter for the sheep, for the fell walker they can also be a reassuring guide to location. It is hard to think of Lakeland without its dry stone walls.