The Observatory

“The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul...”

(Arthur Conan Doyle)



Quartering-light, through a narrow gap in the clouds to the west, falls upon the summit rocks of Bonehill Tor, Bonehill Down and Bell Tor beyond in the moments before sundown. The long shadowy ridge of Hamel Down can be seen in the far distance, across the Vale of Widecombe.

*This is a ‘squar-o-ramic’ stitch of three overlapping photographs in ‘portrait format’, composite image was created in Microsoft Research’s Image Composite Editor.