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116 Chapter 7: Middle Lunesdale and Leck Fell 1. Ease Gill runs from the slopes of Great Coum ... 2. ... and gradually disappears through limestone ... 3. ... the bed becoming completely dry in places ... 4. ... though there’s usually a trickle at Cow Dub ... 5. ... below which the valley is dry and quiet ... 6. ... with eerie grottos and waterless waterfalls ... This is Chapter 7 of The Land of the Lune (2nd edition), http://www.drakkar.co.uk/landofthelune.html, Copyright © 2010 John Self
7. ... meanwhile the underground waters of Ease Gill are exploring the Easegill Caverns, as many potholers also do by, for example, entering Lancaster Hole ... Walk 15: Leck Fell, Gragareth and Great Coum Leck Beck 117 8. ... and eventually, as the waters reach the impermeable rock below the layer of limestone, they re-emerge at Leck Beck Head near Ease Gill Kirk to form Leck Beck. Map: OL2 (please read the general note about the walks in the Introduction). Starting point: The track near Bullpot Farm (663815). This expedition provides a surface exploration of some potholes of the Easegill Caverns followed by a high-level ridge walk. From Bullpot Farm walk south 1km to cross a stile below Hellot Scales Barn. (In the very unlikely circumstance that Ease Gill cannot be forded at this point, be sensible: abandon the suggested walk. Content yourself with a walk along the north bank to view the rare sight of waterfalls in the Ease Gill valley and return to Bullpot Farm.) Detour for 100m up the dry bed to view a chamber with a U-shaped (dry!) waterfall (see photograph left). Some people call this Ease Gill Kirk but the name is properly applied to a less accessible but larger and more spectacular amphitheatre with overhanging cliffs about 200m downstream from the stile. The Kirk (or Church, as it used to be called) is said to have been a clandestine meeting place for Quakers. Returning to the stile, cross the bed of Ease Gill (leaving Cumbria for Lancashire) and follow the footpath south. At a grassy slope a side-path allows a detour to see the real Ease Gill Kirk. Leave the footpath before reaching a wall and head southeast across a field, viewing Big Meanie and Rumbling Hole en route. Note the Three Men of Gragareth, the central group of a set of cairns, on the horizon as you cross the field. These are your next objective. On reaching the road, take the track above Leck Fell House north for 100m and then scramble up to the Three Men. From the cairns, take a faint path east for 1km to the Gragareth trig point, and then continue for 150m to reach a wall (peer over the wall into North Yorkshire). Walk north by the wall for 5km, passing Green Hill (628m, the highest point of Lancashire) and the County Stone (the northernmost point of Lancashire) to reach Great Coum, from which there is an excellent view of the Lakeland hills, the Howgills, the nearby Yorkshire Dales peaks, the lower Lune and Morecambe Bay. Walk west by the wall to Crag Hill (1km) and continue southwest to Richard Man, a rather inconspicuous set of stones (a further 1km). At this point walk south for 250m to a parallel wall, which you then follow southwest for 2km to reach the Bullpot Farm track. Short walk variation: Follow the long walk as far as the track above Leck Fell House and then follow that track north for 2km. Leave the track to follow the wall as it drops down to Ease Gill. Follow Ease Gill south for 1km until you reach a rather rickety bridge. It is worth a short detour beyond the bridge to see Cow Dub. Return to cross the bridge and then follow the path northwest for 1.5km back to Bullpot Farm. This is Chapter 7 of The Land of the Lune (2nd edition), http://www.drakkar.co.uk/landofthelune.html, Copyright © 2010 John Self
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The Land of the Lune John Self
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The Land of the Lune A guide to the
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The Land of the Lune - and its trib
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Contents Introduction 9 1. Northern
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The Land of the Lune - and its trib
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Acknowledgements Writing a general
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Chapter 9: Gretadale and a little m
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CHAPTER 1: Northern Howgills and Or
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The River Lune ... A great oak may
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Looking down Bowderdale Bowderdale
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The Lune from Bowderdale Beck ... T
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A walker near the head of Langdale
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Rais Beck gathers pace as it passes
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ancient earthworks on the Orton Fel
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The Lune from Chapel Beck ... Immed
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CHAPTER 2: Shap Fells and Birkbeck
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Birk Beck Birk Beck arises in Wasda
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The Lune from Birk Beck ... At thei
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The Lune below Jeffrey’s Mount Wa
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Borrow Beck 41 This is Chapter 2 of
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44 Chapter 2: Shap Fells and Birkbe
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46 Chapter 3: Western Howgills and
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The Lune from Carlingill Beck ... A
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The presence of dippers along any b
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Walk 6: Lowgill and Brown Moor Holy
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64 Chapter 4: Upper Rawtheydale Sea
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silence is complete, apart from bir
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CHAPTER 11: Wenningdale, Hindburnda
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The Wenning from Keasden Beck ... T
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is split into four smaller cast-iro
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The River Hindburn By the time it r
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in spring is not, however, in silen
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Furnessford Bridge, although the 18
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CHAPTER 12: The Lune Floodplain and
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The Lune from the Wenning ... The a
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ather than shale, has been reached
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there are remains of about thirty c
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The Lune from Bull Beck ... The ste
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Foxdale Beck passes Littledale Hall
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four Roman miles from Lancaster, wh
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CHAPTER 13: The Lune to Lancaster
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The Lune from Artle Beck ... After
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entirely natural. Within Loyne the
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Halton washed away. This was swept
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Turner sketched it on his 1797 tour
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castle and priory now framed by the
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with the Dissolution of the Monaste
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St George’s Quay from the Millenn
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CHAPTER 14: The Salt Marshes
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The Lune from Lancaster ... Beyond
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Burrow Beck We followed the Roman r
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The River Conder The River Conder a
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from Clougha Pike. The valley seems
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nearby Church of St Thomas and St E
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The Lune from the Conder ... East o
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CHAPTER 15: Into Morecambe Bay
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The Lune from the Conder (continued
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then walk south along the coast. Th
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largest remaining uncultivated peat
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The remains of Cockersand Abbey Wal
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that there was a large local commun
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Reflections from the Point of Lune
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Bibliography and References Bibliog
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Contact Details for Further Informa
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Contact Details for Further Informa
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Austwick Game Cock Inn “ 51226 ht
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Tourist/Visitor Information Centres
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Bridge End (Caton) 198 Bridge End (
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Foul Gutter 125 Foundry Beck 207 Fo
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Leck Beck 105, 114-121, 117, 119, 1
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Ripley Orphanage 213 Rise Hill 75-7
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Walk 23: Ward’s Stone 225 Walk 24
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