Green Lane

Took a walk down this green lane last week on a rare sunny afternoon. Lots of wild flowers, (or weeds depending on your perspective) in flower along the grass verge.

A closer look...

......at the door surround of St Giles church shows the stone columns have been recently replaced. Clearly this church is still well maintained.

The Path

 

On a recent visit to Skelton I took a look at the local church, St Giles. Like many English churchyards this one is planted with Yew trees There has been a long association of Yew trees in churchyards, indeed there are at least 500 churchyards which contain Yew trees which are older than the building itself. The reason why the Yew trees were planted here in the first place is rather unclear.