Dan Wright Conservation

Have you ever stopped and looked at the countryside around you? There are literally thousands of miles of drystone walls in England alone! The majority of these walls are hundreds of years old and all built by hand by our ancestors.

Dry stone walls, with field barns, hay meadows and limestone pavement, are the features that people associate with the Yorkshire Dales landscape. Drystone walls are particularly important in the dale bottoms. It is difficult to date field walls, but dry stone walls as old as c.600 BC have been identified in Swaledale. There are also characteristic walls from the great monastic era in the Dales, and recognisable medieval walls with wide footings. The oldest dry stone walls in the Yorkshire Dales date back beyond the first Millennium BC. Wall patterns provide valuable clues about landscape history: parliamentary enclosure, previous land use, agricultural needs and social history.

DWC provides professional Dry Stone Walling services from a complete new build to gapping services helping to preserve part of the National Heritage, or an ornamental feature. Experienced in walling with Pennine Sandstone, Millstone grit and Limestone. Based in North Yorkshire, DWC is a member of the Dry Stone Walling Association.

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