The Great Outdoors (UK)

Vivienne Crow explores limestone country

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STEP OFF the train at Settle and into the limestone scenery of the southern Yorkshire Dales, and it’s like entering another world. There really is nowhere quite like this in Britain. In just a few minutes from the town centre, we were already walking beneath towering limestone crags and cliffs. First glimpse of a cave and I was off... It turned out to be only a shallow grotto, its walls whipped by tongues of maidenhair spleenwort. The fern was an eerie sight in the half-light, and a shiver ran down my spine as an image crawled to mind of a Medusa-like creature, its head a mass of writhing snakes – from a film

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