Links; Wild Yorkshire and Beyond
Nature Diary
Rocks
History
Gallery
Home Page
Yorkshire Wildlife
Yorkshire Wildlife
Trust manages over 80 reserves throughout the county.
West Yorkshire RIGS Group:
geological conservation in the county.
Cliffe Castle
Museum a large and important collection of local natural history
and geology available for people to view, research or use in a whole
host of ways.
Ackworth School
Nature Diary
Judy Woods Heritage,
near Bradford: photographs of woodland species.
Friends of Judy Woods
 West
Bretton Wildlife photography by Marcus Macaulay
including local moths, butterflies and dragonflies. If you have broadband,
take a look at the videos.
Natural History
Flora
and Fauna; an exceptionally useful site for wildlife, run by the Natural
History Museum. Simply type in your (U.K.) postcode and you'll get a print-out
of your local flora and fauna. This kind of information that now easier
to obtain from the web than from the original reports and atlases.
Wildscenes
You may have seen the work of wildlife and landscape photographer John
Gardner in publications as far afield as France and the United States.
Between field trips his home base is in West Yorkshire. Stunning close-up
photography of our local wildlife - and of birds, animals and landscapes
further afield - plus some useful advice on wildlife photography;www.wildscenes.com
Digiscope this
handheld microscope links directly to your PC. The website is interactive
but you need the latest version of Flash (version 7), available as a
free download from Macromedia
to join in the fun.
 CEM
a site run by Phil Chambers, a wheelchair user determined
to enable everyone to enjoy countryside, wildlife and heritage sites.
A Donegal Hedgerow
Virtual
Field Guide U.K.
www.countrylovers.co.uk 'connecting people with Britain's countryside'.
Insects
The Butterfly Garden
photographs, observations and advice on plants from Linda Walls
in southern England.
Hoverflies,
compiled by Mark van Veen, contains links to background info and key
for a number of hoverflies.
The Bumblebee
Pages, compiled by L. Smith, include a guide to six
species common in north east Scotland.
Alphabetical
list of Bombus species, Natural History Museum,
London.
Local Links
For an introduction to other aspects of the region here are some useful
Yorkshire web sites, with a good selection of local links;
Daelnet
home page; '... the internet gateway for the dales.'
Pontefract
Links on www.welcome-2-europe.com
Haworth includes information
on local natural
history
turning earth from a
small Yorkshire garden.
West
Yorkshire links in www.explore-united-kingdom.com
The
Yorkshire Dales
www.daleswalks.co.uk; Walks
in Yorkshire and the surrounding areas. This site is a breath of fresh
air, makes me want to get out there walking the hills again.
The Three Peaks Walk -
Whernside, Penyghent and Ingleborough.
www.nidderdaleinfo.co.uk
local information on Nidderdale, compiled by Mrs Knowles, landlady of
the Miners Arms,
Greenhow.
Malhamdale; links and local
information.
Malham; The Lister
Arms
Roseberry Topping 'take
a look at its many moods and the magnetism of a summit truly irresistible
to all who cherish landscapes and wander among the hills.'
YOGI Yorkshire
Online Gateway to Information; websites recommended by libraries.
Bronte
Country
North
Pennines Network
AYUP! - The Best of Yorkshire
Captain Cook
Yorkshire
Dialect Verse including spoken versions
 Wilf
Lunn 'you will learn something new every day if you're not careful'
Crofton
Silver Band
Welcome to Wakefield including
useful historical material.
Wakey.com the (unofficial)
web site for Wakefield. It features sport, places of interest . . .
and local pubs.
Mirfield in Pictures
Astronomy
Dome constellation web site.
Geology
Leeds Geological Association
Huddersfield Geology
Group
Yorkshire Books
Rickaro Bookshop of Horbury offers an internet service. All of my books in print are kept in stock - such as Yorkshire Rock and Sandal Castle - and from time to time some of my out-of-print titles such as A Sketchbook of the Natural History of Wakefield and Richard Bell's Britain are available.
Smith Settle publishes 130 titles, with more planned to cover an ever-widening area, recording many aspects of life in the North: the history, landscape and people, and culture from art and poetry to architecture and dialect.
Willow Island Editions, my own imprint, includes illustrated booklets on villages, parks and landscapes in the Wakefield area. Grandma's Guide to the Internet, written by my sister to help my mum get online proved to be a surprise success with some 27,000 copies sold.
Charles Waterton
Waterton Park, Wakefield, was named in honour of Victorian naturalist Charles Waterton, as was Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta.
Following Historic Trails
this Alberta heritage site includes material on Waterton, Blakiston (who named Waterton Lakes) . . . including a Japanese connection.
Charles Waterton 1782-1865
Alberta nature diary
Further Afield
Derbyshire's
Wildlife and Landscapes
Lancing, West Sussex
nature notes by Ray Hamblett
Gardening
Salsify
and Scorzonera, an allotment diary from the Seacroft Hall Allotment
site, Old York Road, Leeds.
13 Labs Garden, Chicago,
'a chronicle of the microcosm that is our backyard'.
Clive Simms specialist grower
of nut trees and uncommon fruits for the edible garden.
greenZoo walks in a
botanical garden.
SlugX an environmentally
friendly slug trap.
Goblinproofing
One's Chicken Coup practical advice from Reginald Blakely at Wonderella.
Garden Spot Erica's gardening
journal, Texas.
Wild Food
 “Wildman”
Steve Brill: learn about edible and medicinal wild plants
and mushrooms, nature and ecology with New York's best-known Naturalist
(Steve was arrested by the park authorities in Central Park for collecting
wild food!).
Caricature by Marian
Oken
Arts and Crafts
Tom Wood Hong Kong artist
now living in Halifax, West Yorkshire
Leafages mixed media
artwork by Hazel Kahan.
Judicael Strings makers and
repairers of violins, electric violins and guitars at the Piece Hall,
Halifax.
Solway Dory For canoes, canoe
sailing and small boat rigs.
Diaries, Journals and Home Schooling
Blackberry
Creek Journal, a country newsletter about the seasons, animals,
gardens and people of a small Michigan farm.
Notes from Pure Land Mountain,
journal of an American living in countryside Japan.
JohnDoe Neighborhood a community
of online diarists.
Charlotte Mason,
1842-1923, an innovative educator who lived most of her life in
Ambleside. If you need any encouragement, Karen Rackliffe's book Wild
Days, Creating Discovery Journals might inspire you to start a nature
notebook.
Lair Log Rheba Kramer
Mitchell's digital art from a Texas wildscape.
A Childhood Saved
Brad Hurley's naturalist's notebooks and sketches from the early 1970s,
40 miles north of New York City.
Danny Gregory, a New Yorker,
has gone one stage further and published his illustrated journal - it
makes me realise that it's about time I should burst into print with
my Wild West Yorkshire diary. He uses Flash (you'll need an up to date
version) in a quirky entertaining way.
Richard Bell,
wildlife illustrator
E-mail; 'richard@willowisland.co.uk'
Wild West Yorkshire home page
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