Staward - Circa 1905

Cypress Linn or Sypers Lynn, Staward.  The Allen is forced through a narrow gap in the rock, forming a cascade in summer and an area of rapids in winter. In Scotland and northern England, a Linn is a geographical water feature, a watercourse that has cut through a shelf of hard rock creating a narrow … read more

Sinderhope - Circa 1904

Holmes Linn – holmr is of Norse origin and in the Northern England and Scottish context means ‘a piece of flat low-lying land by a river or stream, submerged or surrounded in times of flood’, the falls evidently taking their name from the house (Holms) and Holms Haugh close by. ‘Linn’ is slightly more complex. In … read more