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The small fields around the village of Marrick are ideal for sheep during the lambing season.
©Trish Steel
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©Colin Grice
Dist:0.3km<br/>The seat has been conveniently placed on the wide verge and at this time of the year the area is a covered in daffodils.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>From the Coast-to-Coast path on a brightening morning.
©Dave Dunford
Dist:0.4km<br/>The plant is to be found growing against the wall in [[2392703]] Lungwort in some regions was called "Herb of Mary", and was said to be used as proof for revealing if a person was a witch. In the past, many wild flowers and herbs were associated with the Virgin Mary and St. Bridget, and all of them were worn or used as a protection against witches and evil spirits. Lungwort has a variety of folk names, amongst them are Soldiers and Sailors, Lung Moss (not to be confused with actual lungmoss), Spotted Dog, Joseph and Mary, and Bethlehem Sage. It is also called Mary's Tears because the white spots on the leaves resemble tear stains, and the changing colour of the flowers from pink to blue represent blue eyes becoming reddened from weeping.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>Moss is a small green plant, rarely more than a few inches high, which grows anywhere not overshadowed by taller vegetation or perpetually dry. There are more than 600 species in the British Isles, growing on rocks and walls, in woodlands and on tree trunks and branches. They are important pioneers of rock surfaces, holding moisture in their leaves and building up humus in which the seeds of flowering plants can germinate. There are two alternating generations in the life cycle of moss. The plant itself carries male and female organs. After fertilisation, these produce a capsule. Stalk and capsule together form an asexual, spore-bearing generation. The spores produced are capable of germinating into a new plant. Mosses also reproduce vegetatively, by small pieces breaking off and growing into a new plant. As they are rootless and tend to get their nutrients from water running over or through them they are nearly always short.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The sign is surrounded with daffodils.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The main village street on the Coast-to-Coast long-distance path.
©Dave Dunford
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©Colin Grice
Dist:0.5km<br/>This attractively converted former chapel is the last house in the village of Marrick. The footpath beyond leads through Steps Wood to Marrick Priory.
©Dave Dunford
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking from just north of Marrick towards the cleft of Swaledale which runs right and left in the background of the photograph.
©Roger Gilbertson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Past Nun Cote Nook. At one time there was a large and prosperous Priory at Marrick.
©Roger Gilbertson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Stone-walled fields extend to the horizon from North of Marrick.
©Roger Gilbertson
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©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.6km<br/>The track acts as the beginning of the bridleway that takes riders and walkers from Crook Bank Lane Shaw Bank and onwards to Sour Nook which is two miles distant.
©Trish Steel

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