About Scout Scar: Looking into a Cumbrian Landscape
By Jan Wiltshire
About Scout Scar Publisher Palatine Books. September 2008
  • ISBN-10: 1874181578         ISBN-13: 978-18741815   click READ ONLINE  
As About Scout Scar matures and grows older it becomes a history of Natural history. The introduction ( page3 Lyth Valley) tells of wetland  drained to become agricultural land in the early 19th century.  Since 2008 an area of wetland has been recreated -  pools overlooked by a bird hide at Park End Moss.  The riches  of Brigsteer Wood and Sizergh appear in blogs.   There's conservation grazing of Scout Scar's limestone grassland to encourage the biodiversity of its flora.  
I continue to write about Scout Scar and its environs in the early chapters of Cumbrian Contrasts and now in blogs.  Change is perceptible since  the early years of 21st century.  What is 'abundance'?  There is more abundance in those early Scout Scar wildlife encounters. 
What does this place mean to others, what do they seek?    10 August 2025 someone tried out a new abseiling route on the cliff. Paragliders prepared to launch above Helsington Church. Peace, so often it's peace.   How about you? 
                                                                                                                  copyright About Scout Scar 2008