8th September 2015 - Redmire Station, Castle Bolton, Black Hill, Dent's Houses, Height of Greets, Hirst Ridge, Grinton Smelting Mill, then up Flue, Snowden Man, Chaytor Rake, disused Quarry, Preston Scar, Redmires - leader Judy Gathercole - Tuesday
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| Redmires Station (end of line) |
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| Bolton Castle in gloom |
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| Dent's Houses |
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| well fed grouse waiting contentedly for a sporting end? |
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| below Hirst Ridge |
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| Grinton Smelt Mill - store? |
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| Cogden Gill in a culvert near mill. A water wheel (since disappeared) operated bellows for the fires |
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| Grinton Lead Smelt Mill |
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| insides of smelt house apparently partly demolished by scavangers |
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| Flue built up slope. Flue also passed a-joined to the peat store to dry out peat fuel |
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| flue running up side of hill |
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| access openings into flue to enable cleaning out and recycling of lead compounds deposited on walls. (openings presumably closed when in use). |
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| a chimney at the top of the inclined flue has been demolished |
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| gate - Snowden Man |
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| possibly coat of arms engraved on stone? |
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| not a war memorial |
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| access slope to bottom of disused quarry near Preston on Scar |
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