Saving Eden
Sep 22, 2022
4 minutes
Photos: Lizzie Shepherd
The path leads you through musty woodland until – quite suddenly – the space opens out. A lake stretches before you; a pair of mute swans glide across waters reflecting the autumnal tints and white birch stems that clad the steep surrounding slopes.
Despite the lake’s beauty, it is the rocks – towering and weatherworn – that demand attention. Overwhelming in their scale and punctuated by striking Scots pines and yews, these great stacks of millstone grit – a kind of sandstone – rear up from the waters, by turns spectacular in the sun, with their ochre tones, or moody and menacing when it retreats.
The 12 hectares of Plumpton Rocks are magical to explore, full of
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