John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he was living in Ontario, working for clients who wanted decorative stone ...

Dry-stone walls are a design classic, so beautiful they look good even when photographed in black and white. Judging by the amount of RHS medals they've won in show gardens recently, they're not going ...

Watch a beginner and you can tell within two minutes if they've got a knack for it, says Richard Ingles. It takes a certain kind of eye-brain co-ordination, dry stone walling: you need to be able to ...

A body representing dry stone wall enthusiasts has called for heritage listing of the country's most significant constructions, before they end up as piles of rubble. Dry Stone Walls Association of ...

A four-mile (7km) dry stone wall is being built to help a major new commuter road blend into its Cotswolds surroundings. Twelve stonemasons have already spent a year constructing the wall ...

Once, in what proved to be a rite of passage, I followed writer and cartographer Tim Robinson as he led a tortuous way across the field walls on Aran – the "labyrinth" of his first great book on the ...

Thousands of tonnes of dry stone walls in all shapes and sizes amble through expansive gardens and along vineyards at their St Mary's property in Maaoupe, 60 kilometres north of Mount Gambier in South ...

Dry stone walls have inspired local poets, photographers and artists alike, and a dedicated team in the Yorkshire Dales is keeping them in top condition The Yorkshire Dales National Park is much-loved ...