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houses are converted long barns but
many follow the standard design of
three windows up, two down, with
a door and porch between. Dandra
Garth, by the bridleway to Dentdale
and now rather enclosed, has character.
Swarthgill House is startlingly white.
But Paradise (East, West, Middle and
High) is somewhat optimistic.
The village of Garsdale consists
of little more than a row of cottages,
called The Street. There’s a Primitive
Methodist Chapel (1876, when the
Settle-Carlisle line was built), now
a Mount Zion Chapel, at Garsdale
Head, and in the village another
Primitive Methodist Chapel (1841)
and the Anglican Church of St John
the Baptist (1861), next to the site of
a medieval church, and further on a
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel (1830),
and at Bridge End another Wesleyan
Chapel (1868), now a barn, and
at Frostrow yet another Wesleyan
Chapel (1886).
Methodism, like Quakerism, had
and has a particular appeal to nonconformist
northerners. It is a more
visible presence in Loyne because,
clearly, Methodists, unlike Quakers,
believed in their chapels and the
19 th century was a safe time to build
them. Even in the remotest regions we
come across sometimes tiny chapels,
to which itinerant preachers came to
give enthusiastic sermons.
At Danny Bridge, as the Clough
emerges from the confines of Baugh
Fell and Rise Hill, it runs beside the
Sedgwick Trail across the Dent Fault.
A detailed leaflet should be obtained
from Sedbergh Tourist Information
Centre in order fully to appreciate
the significance of the viewpoints but
even without it the transition across
the Dent Fault, from the contorted
Carboniferous limestone to the older
Silurian rocks, should be clear: roughly
Clough River 77
A considerate warning on the footpath into Grisedale
A once-fine but now derelict homestead in Garsdale
This is Chapter 4 of The Land of the Lune (2nd edition), http://www.drakkar.co.uk/landofthelune.html, Copyright © 2010 John Self