An internationally important habitat, Britain's limestone pavements are predominantly found in the northern English counties of Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria, as well as in North Wales and ...

The pieces of this limestone pavement, as it’s called, have old Yorkshire names. The blocks are called clints. And the gaps are known as grikes. But the most curious thing is what’s hidden ...

Poor upland weather conditions, a lack of surface water (due to the permeable limestone ... pavement) mean that crops cannot be grown. Visitors have been travelling to the Yorkshire Dales ...