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These are the Holehouse and Corney Fell washfolds
WF39 Holehouse Gill
WF40 Storthes Gill
WF41 Sele Bottom, Ulpha
WF42 Sele Bottom, Ulpha
WF43 Logan Beck
WF44 Thwaites Fell
WF45 Biggert Mire
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Washfold at Sele Bottom on Logan Beck. The fold is located at SD 16366 91857 at an altitude of 340m above sea level. It is recorded in the National Park Heritage Environment Record as 61097 and is not recorded in the Duddon Valley Local History Group survey, Ring Cairns to Reservoirs (R2R) survey in 2009. It is in Cumberland, previously Copeland.
Its condition is medium/good and the certainty that it is a washfold is good.
Constructed from quarried and glacial stones. There are large boulders and a small outcrop the in base of the wall.
Dimensions:
Chamber 1- 7.8×7.2m; chamber 2- 3.5×4.0m; pool 3- 12.0×4.0m
Wall heights: a 1.4m; b 0.9m; c 1.7m; d 0.8m
Description:
The two chambers are built on a massive revetment above the beck abutting the fell wall. The main chamber is square with an entrance in the west wall. The second chamber is much smaller and the dividing wall is largely tumble. The exit is about 1.5m above the beck. The long pool lies between two sets of waterfalls and has a substantial revetment to the far bank before a large outcrop where there are signs of a dam. The whole enclosure is overgrown with rush covering half of the height of the hog hole. There is a large drain visible to the east of the exit that is obvious above the beck but not easy to find inside the chamber. On the far side of the beck, there are lots of large boulders and it is hard to make out whether they are part of another structure or naturally positioned on the fell side
Recorded by: Stephe Cove and Dave Hughes on 2nd April, 2022
WF42 Sele Bottom, Ulpha
No record for Washfold 42 – opposite side of beck to WF41 but random stone rather than a washfold
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WF44 in Area 10, Thwaites Fell
Washfold at Thwaites Fell on a feeder to Black Beck. The fold is located at SD 16216 89763at an altitude of 315m above sea level. It is recorded in the National Park Heritage Environment Record as 61100 and is not recorded in the Duddon Valley Local History Group survey, Ring Cairns to Reservoirs (R2R) survey in 2009. It is in Cumberland, previously Copeland.
Its condition is good and the certainty that it is a washfold is good.
It is constructed from fell stone.
Dimensions:
Chamber 1- 6.4×3.6m; chamber 2- 11.2×8.3m; chamber3- 7.1×7.0m; pool 4- 8.0×5.0m
Wall heights: a 2.3m; b 1.5m; c o.6m; d 1.7m; e 1.6m
Description:
A well built two chambered washfold on Black Beck less than a hundred metres above the bridge on the Corney Fell Road. There are two driving walls that lead to wide (2.6m) entrance from the fell. There is a second entrance from the fell close to the dividing wall between the chambers. The exit to the beck is blocked up in chamber 1 where there is a hog hole with closing stone. The launching stone stands above a pool that has stone revetments and earth banking which, when dammed, could create a pool about 15x8m with a depth approaching a metre.
Recorded by: Stephe Cove and Dave Hughes on 2nd April, 2022
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