limestone pavement

"It also has a wonderful mix of limestone grassland and ancient woodland that grow out of the limestone pavement, supporting no fewer than 28 different species of butterflies."

The landscape is also home to common blue butterflies, meadow pipits, skylarks, brown hares and great crested newts, and has rare examples of limestone pavement which supports many ferns and wildflowers.

In the following years we were honoured to be taken on several guided tours of his own garden, which, despite the limestone pavement just below the surface, contained magnificent magnolias.

It grew on a limestone pavement raised above the surrounding fell.

Follow the wall around, ahead is a limestone pavement. Also dotted around the landscape are large boulders, called erratics, which were left when the glaciers retreated.

Top: The impressive rock face of Malham Cove, on top of which is a rare limestone pavement Above and left: Devonshire Fell Hotel, in Burnsall, one of a chain of hotels in the country owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire

Strange, then, that draft PPS9 is silent on the use of statutory limestone pavement orders.

Britain has 2,900 hectares of "limestone pavement", formed over millions of years.

After our bracing visit to the Cliffs of Moher, we passed through the lunar landscape of The Burren, an uneven limestone pavement on the seashore.

On the mainland, a Common Rosefinch on the Great Orme's limestone pavement on Monday was a first site record, though it proved elusive following its discovery.

The only reprieve was the stunning limestone pavement at Malham Cove.