Get a quote from a Lancashire-based dry stone waller.
Hello, I’m Edd Marsh, a Ribble Valley, Lancashire-based dry stone waller with over 14 years’ experience in building and repairs of dry stone walls, and owner of Bowland Dry Stone Walling. You’ve likely had a section of dry stone walling fall down or been knocked down by a driver & need and insurance quote, or you need a section tidying, otherwise a new wall starting from scratch. I also do some mortared stone wall repairs and re-pointing of stonework on exterior walls.
Area I give walling quotes.
I’ve repaired or built dry stone walls in The Ribble Valley, The Forest of Bowland, Accrington, Garstang, Lancaster, Longridge, Blackburn, Chorley, Clitheroe, Burnley, Preston, Bolton and Greater Manchester. I’ve also worked further afield in Yorkshire, around Settle and the Ingleton area, and even South Cumbria-around Kirkby Lonsdale.
Give me a call, text, email or Whatsapp. Whether it’s a small dry stone wall collapse in a cottage garden or a large boundary wall. I can often give you a rough estimate from your pictures, but will always come and look at the wall before submitting a full, note-headed .pdf quote. I also do a little mortared stone wall repairs.
Dry stone walling technique.
Dry stone walls cannot be repaired well by an amateur. Rather, it takes years of experience to build the skill, technique and knowledge (not to mention patience!) to create an attractive, safe and durable wall in an efficient time frame.
Dry stone walls are a beautiful, environmentally sound boundary solution, indeed, the techniques used to build them have been honed over many generations. To see examples of my work,see out my blog, or check out my gallery.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Dry stone wall near Preston. In village of Haighton to North of Ribbleton. Mock dry stone pillars and Rossendale stone wall with reclaimed triangular copings. A decorative garden project in spring 2022.
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Stages of dry stone wall gap repair in The Ribble Valley.
A landowner asked me to fix 2 gaps in July 2021. A car ploughed straight through the wall. It spun round in the field, turned around, and smashed through another section back out onto the road. The driver remained unharmed. This is often the case, as the dry stone wall has a certain ‘give’ and…
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Kirkby Lonsdale
Not often I get out of Lancashire to do some dry stone walling. This was a little job from November 2020 that I did near Kirkby-Lonsdale, just over the border inside Cumbria. It was an old vicarage that was privately owned and this was the entrance gateway to the existing church and graveyard. It had…
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Stone Gateway Entrance Pillars
A pair of large pillars I built in The Ribble Valley, finished late summer 2020. The gate pillars themselves are not strictly dry stone as have mortar inside to hold together. They need to support a huge pair of steel gates. The rest of the wall including the style is traditional dry stone. The stone…
A wall repair near Lancaster (Dolphinholme), on the edge of Forest of Bowland.
A somewhat decorative retaining wall constructed to improve the appearance of a driveway boundary. This was in Billington, The Ribble Valley in 2022.
