Trees on grassy banks of winding Marshaw Wyre River, with many boulders, upstream from Tower Lodge, Bowland Forest, Lancashire
The Marshaw Wyre, a headwater stream of the River Wyre that enters the sea at Fleetwood, is incised into glacial deposits supporting shallow-rooted beech trees and conifers downstream of the exposed moortops where the stream starts. The stream, in dry weather, is reduced to a trickle. It responds rapidly to heavy rain, however. The steep slopes, thin soils and impermeable bedrock of the upland valley give rise to the rapid overland flow of rainwater. A view looking upstream from Tower Lodge, a small house at the side of the Lancaster- Dunsop Bridge road (out of sight left of shot), and originally built as a gate lodge to a shooting lodge on the moors above in the early 19th Century. With easy access from the road, the river is well-visited by both tourists and geography students.
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Location: Marshaw Wyre, upstream from Tower Lodge, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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