The NWWT hopes to organise classes in dry stone walling, hedge laying and other skills as part of the project, which runs until August this year.

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Picture the beautiful village of Ipstones with its dry stone walls and weathered houses perched high above the market town of Leek, way up in the Staffordshire Moorlands.

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The path leads past a dry-stone wall, marking the boundary of a nature reservation.

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Yet despite the fact that we are all as familiar with this formula as we are with compound interest, very little of this intellectual water ever reaches our stone dry hearts.

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