The last one

A rubbish day weather-wise but, after spending several hours sorting and rehousing hundreds of books and maps (the start of our current project with the aim of trying to get some sort of order amongst our huge book collection) and getting very dusty in the process, we decided to go out, and I managed to photograph the last of the Pinfolds in a break in the showers.

This one is at Outhgill, which is a little village on a road out of Kirkby Stephen. The pinfold is behind a converted barn and, although when this fold was reclaimed it was on the edge of open fields, it is now squeezed in between other houses that have since been built. This picture shows you better how it is next to the village lane and presumably was originally on the edge of the village itself as this is where the lane ends - a good place to hold stray animals, which is what these pinfolds were for in the first place.

For this project, Goldsworthy was inspired by the Nine Standards, which are piles of stones high up on Hartley Fell. So, there were plans made for nine cairns. Unfortunately, only six were actually constructed; three were turned down by parish councils, much to Goldsworthy’s disappointment.