Drumlins

The pictures below are of Upper Ribblesdale and show drumlins.  Drumlins? I hear you cry.  Yes drumlins, typically low rounded hills in the bottom of a broad valley.  They are formed by glaciers as they melt.

This is from a video clip on Facebook yesterday of part of the Ribble Valley Drumlin Field:

And a wider view.

Those are on the western side of Pen y Ghent.  The drumlins are the near and middle distance hills - looking somewhat like upturned spoons or buried eggs.

Some drumlins can he hundreds of feet high.  Lower ones in this part of the world may be called 'sykes':

The link below is well worth seven minutes of your time.  It explains drumlins perfectly.  

https://timeforgeography.co.uk/videos_list/glaciation/formation-drumlins/

I do so wish such teaching aids had existed at the time I was failing O Level geography (my only O Level failure, before you ask).

Particularly relevant to the land around the water tower, now our 'gardens'.  It all goes a long way to explaining the rounded boulders which now form the dry stone walls of our new  garden area at the southern end of the site.