Stones for stone walls....
Andy Helsby
number of dry stone walls and wondered where people get the stones to
build them. Do they just take them from their own landsite? There
was also a large area of stones at the bottom of a steep hillside
which looked very enticing to use for a rockery. Would this be
legal/ethical? And if not, where is a good place to get stones this
size for a rockery?
Andy
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Anthony Anson
from an...@helsby.your.brain.net (Andy Helsby) contains these words:
In many parts of the country the stones were removed from the land
so it could be cultivated. Stone walls have two advantages: they keep
stock off the crops (to a certain extent!) and they use the otherwise
useless rocks in an economical way from land use point of view.
There must be hundreds of Cat and Fiddle Roads - you should enquire
of the landowner if you could take some stones. Just taking them
would not be legal, and in my book, not ethical.
Tony
cormaic
(Andy Helsby) enriched all our lives with these words:
>As i was driving along the cat and fiddle road I noticed the vast
>number of dry stone walls and wondered where people get the stones to
>build them. Do they just take them from their own landsite? There
>was also a large area of stones at the bottom of a steep hillside
>which looked very enticing to use for a rockery. Would this be
>legal/ethical? And if not, where is a good place to get stones this
>size for a rockery?
All dry-stone walls are being rebuilt using existing stone
from collapsed walls, supplemented with 'spares' from the local
quarries (I'm assuming this is THE Cat and Fiddle, on the road to
Buxton).
It's unlikely that the quarries (at Sterndale Moor and
Doveholes) would be prepared to supply you directly with loads of less
than 20T, but their sales office will give you contact details of
stockists, usually GCs or Landscape Contractors, who will sell in
smaller quantities.
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Anne Jackson
from cor...@NOSPAMTODAYTHANKStmac.clara.net (cormaic) contains
these words:
> All dry-stone walls are being rebuilt using existing stone
> from collapsed walls, supplemented with 'spares' from the local
> quarries
> It's unlikely that the quarries would be prepared to supply you
> directly with loads of less than 20T, but their sales office will
> give you contact details of stockists, usually GCs or Landscape
> Contractors, who will sell in smaller quantities.
It's just a pity that he doesn't live near Cupar in Fife. I have a
friend there who wants rid of a dry-stane dyke that runs through
the middle of her garden, and it's going to cost her a lot of money
to have it taken down, and the stones removed!
Anne
Anthony Anson
from Anne Jackson <amyg...@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
> It's just a pity that he doesn't live near Cupar in Fife. I have a
> friend there who wants rid of a dry-stane dyke that runs through
> the middle of her garden, and it's going to cost her a lot of money
> to have it taken down, and the stones removed!
> Anne
IIRC the Goons drove a wall away.
Tony
Jane Ransom
<an...@helsby.your.brain.net> writes
>As i was driving along the cat and fiddle road I noticed the vast
>number of dry stone walls and wondered where people get the stones to
>build them. Do they just take them from their own landsite? There
>was also a large area of stones at the bottom of a steep hillside
>which looked very enticing to use for a rockery. Would this be
>legal/ethical? And if not, where is a good place to get stones this
>size for a rockery?
>
Ours came from three local farms.
Farmers often have spare stones for a variety of reasons eg
1. They often build field drainage systems which involves a lot of
digging. The stones and boulders which they dig out they usually put to
one side of the plot they are draining.
2. In the war, farmers had to plough up pasture land to grow crops. The
stones and boulders which they dug out they usually put to one side of
the plot they are ploughing.
3. When dry stone walling, there are frequently stones which are
'rejects'. These they often dump somewhere on the farm.
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If you go to a farmer and ask him nicely if you can *buy* his surplus to
requirements stones, he is usually quite amenable. But then you will
need to organise carriage as well.
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Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
Andy Helsby
in this newsgroup (and to gardening) I was talking about the Buxton
Cat & Fiddle and it will be interesting to see what/who i speak to!
thanks once again,