Mardale Green ruins exposed Haweswater Reservoir, Cumbria 2018
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2018
- Mr H and the girls switch counties and travel to Penrith in Cumbria to explore the exposed ruins of the lost village of Mardale Green, sometimes referred to by the media as 'Cumbria's Atlantis' which normally lies in a watery grave beneath the hidden depths of Haweswater Reservoir and can only be seen during prolonged spells of hot weather.
Fascinating video Mr H 👍
The village itself was just called Mardale. Mardale Green was an area adjacent to the village, and was - as it's name suggests - a large grassy area.
Thanks! Sitting in Wigan right now watching this lol
Was interesting, no mention of a graveyard i noticed,,,there must of been one, (Capel Celyn) another valley flooded ;(,, its a pity Stewart Hall wasn't standing there when it was bombed .
Hi Alan, I did mention what happened to the graveyard belonging to the church in another clip that didn't make it into the final edit of this video. In total 97 remains were exhumed from the grounds of Holy Trinity Church in Mardale Green before the valley was flooded and reinterred at a graveyard in Shap. However the usual practice when there are mass exhumations like this is to remove remains to another location and reinter them again in a mass public grave unless the relatives of the deceased can pay for a private burial plot and in effect, a second funeral which many families of this era could ill afford.
Just thinking Roy, would be good to kayak out in diff places on the lake and lower a gopro, imagine the footage would be eerie and somewhat sad.
With your attitude, its a pity you were not stood with him.
I don't think United Utilities allow people to kayak on their reservoirs Alan, but I do agree that it would be a good idea if someone did this purely to see what remains are still left in the deeper parts of the reservoir that as yet remain unexplored.
What are you on about John?
Thank you . I was looking for this. This place makes me imagine the good ol times
I went to Ladybower reservoir yesterday to see the remains of Derwent village, it's really facinating to see the remains of what used to be there including an intact pump house remains of the old Derwent hall and church, video on my channel 😀
Enjoyed and liked the vid them trees were massive ashame they flooded it good history take care
Hi Captain Kirk, glad that you enjoyed this one. Yes those trees were either approaching or were over a century old when they were cut down. Just shows how it's one law for one them and one for the rest of us as can you imagine the fuss if you or I was to cut a small tree down in our back garden that was threatening to destroy our drains or foundations?
Great fan of your vids Mr H thanks for this one
No problem Rochy, glad that you enjoyed the video. 👍
Mrs H is a trooper.
Absolutely fascinating! 😀
Cheers Lindsay Muir, glad that you found the video interesting. The ruins at Haweswater are well worth a visit when the water level in the reservoir are low if you are able to get there.
I think it's a real shame they lost there little village, I lost my home in hindley at the back of Leyland park in 2000. I can't imagine they got much choice. Great video really interesting
Hi Dave 508d, glad to hear that you enjoyed the video. I should imagine that most of the people living in Mardale Green in the 1930's were worker tenants with fewer rights than tenants enjoy today which would have made it very easy to evict them. Sadly in this case someone somewhere had decided that the needs of the many over in Manchester outweighed the needs of a few living in a small village in Cumbria. Sad but that's the way of the world I guess.
@@MrHsHotPot The vast majority were sheep farmers. Most had owned and farmed the land for generations. I think the first notifications of intended compulsory purchase were issued in the mid 20's, not that it would make it any easier to swallow. Some families took the compensation offered and moved elsewhere to resume farming. One lady in particular moved to Morecambe in Lancashire to buy a guest house, which she ran for several decades until her death in the 70's. I understand the last residents left Mardale in the mid 30's. Once the dam itself was complete, flooding began in 1940 I think.
@@Brian-om2hh Hi Brian The last landlady of the Dun Bull was called Miss Clare Bellas, the Dun Bull's last landlady was appointed landlady of the nearby and recently completed Haweswater Hotel. The site of the pub can be seen at times of severe drought, she retired to Morcambe and ran a guest house there.
If you like the story of the valley it is available in a book called Mardale Mysteries, we bought one last year from a book shop in Penrith, I think it is still available.
@@daviddanielstephenson2833 I've had the book for years David. Plus I've walked over the remains of the Dun Bull, and it's tennis court immediately opposite. I've also eaten in the current Haweswater Hotel a number of times. There are a number of websites specialising in out of print books, and it's surprising what they often have....
They did exactly the same at Rivington 80 yrs earlier, was a lovely place apparently ?
Hi Black adder, yes the former Water Corporations of Manchester and Liverpool have a lot to answer for but as we all need fresh clean drinking water to survive the reservoirs are a necessary evil I guess.
Great video really interesting thanks
Thanks Nosey B'stard' 8928, and glad to hear that you found the video both interesting and enjoyable as it was an interesting place to visit and worth the drive.
You are a wealth of information
Good video
Did you not bring back a rock or a chunk of the old tree as a souvenir Roy, I remember the Stewart Hall advert to save water.
I used to do that type of thing Mick, but TBH as we started to visit more and more places I ended up with all kinds of junk in the house much to the ire of Mrs H. So nowadays unless it is a place that I have always wanted to visit or it is an exceptional relic such as an ornamental stone or one with a piece of writing on it then I tend to leave 'souvenirs' where they are for others to discover and enjoy.
Not many people will ever see whats on the bottom of that reservoir so it wouldnt have done any harm by taking something.
I dont pinch good bit just little bits and I keep them in a pile in the back garden.
The most famou se ones that I can remember are aThe Great Wall of China, The Pyramids, and Pompeii lots of other including a lump of a Wigan petrified tree and from high up on Scottish mountainsides
Ill take some photos, forgot we had our garden gravelled over and from watching TV programmes I found out that gravel is one of the best places to find fossils, and I have got a few stone dynasaur teeth
There wasn't really any rocks that I saw that were outstanding enough at Haweswater Reservoir that made me want to bring them back TBH honest Mick. If I'm going to take something as a 'souvenir' then I tend to prefer mementos taken from the ruins of former important or famous buildings such as a chuck of the Zeppelinfeld Tribune in Nuremberg, Germany or a building that I had some personal attachment to such as my old primary school in Ince, which I'm hoping to get one of the decorative red terracotta rose bricks from above one of the doorways when I return now that they have started to demolish it but knowing my luck it will be flattened when I get back home! Lol
@@MrHsHotPot There is a great book called mardale mysteries who has done an in depth story of mardale, he interviewed many of the locals who are sadly all gone now.
The unwritten rule regarding visiting places like this, is to *take* only photographs and *leave* only footprints. If everyone who visited took a rock or a chunk of tree, how much would be left after 20 years? With respect, that isn't the attitude to adopt. Unfortunately, a shining example of this is the footbridge near where the church was. Back in 1984, the bridge had walls on either side, pretty much as it was originally built. The walls have now gone, because over the years people have brought back a rock as a souvenir.........
Very interesting Video Mr & Mrs H.
Are You letting Your hair grow Mr H?
I Bet You can't grow it as long as mine ;-)
Ha-ha not quite Nonroadusr, as my rock and roll days of having long hair are well behind me. I've just been a bit busy with the painting and decorating to get the old Bic out for this video that's all, but fear not as it's back to regulation baldness for my next Hot Pot outing. 😉
My rock and roll days are far from over Mr H. I'm Heading towards My late 60's and still rocking ;-)
To quote part of a Mott the Hoople song.....
*"'n you gotta stay young man, you can never be old
All the way from Memphis"*
Oh the bird poop island is in the end of chicken run
your in shap not Penrith, well near shap :)
The people in the village got kicked out but some got revenge
The workers prefabs got replaced with posh homes but when they were there they had central heating, medical and school not bad for the time
The locals blew up a house or school i cant remember now sadly
When it was right down in 94 it was lower than 84
i think it was you could walk the streets
The bridge is nw of bird poop island
One myth is theres a church, theres not
They flattened the lot
The locals didn't blow anything up. It was left to the Royal Engineers to do that. The school was dismantled brick by brick, to be rebuilt a couple of miles down the road near Bampton village. It is a private dwelling now, and still has the large carved stones outside the gate, where the children of Mardale carved faces into the flat stones. Mardale church was also dismantled, with some of the stonework being used in both the draw-off tower and the then newly built Haweswater Hotel. Much of the church interior was sent to other churches in the area.
@@Brian-om2hh Read the history
Not talking about the end but months after they started the dam
Cant remember the books name now but it had a history of the hotel and so on
No the dam workers prefabricated houses got blown up buy pissed of locals
The book talks about the first central heating and so on for workers
The book was from 1989 or about
The workers prefabricated homes went in about 2000, they were at the north of the wall
They were taken down and not rich homes are there
I wanted a prefabricated home there back in the 80s when i was up there every week on the farm, but sadly they were old dam workers only
@@somethingelse4878 Not quite true I'm afraid. There were around 15 of the old prefabricated bungalows there right up until the area was redeveloped by a local developer around 20 years ago. The occupants of the original bungalows were offered rehousing in the new replacement bungalows, which were built on exactly the same footprint as the old ones, but with modern fixtures and fittings, plus LPG gas central heating. And there was *definately* a church at Mardale. Photographs exist of it, and so does a RUclips video of part of the final church service there. I have personally visited Shap cemetery, where a special plot was created for the reburial of those exhumed from the churchyard in Mardale. Much of the stonework and some windows from Mardale church, were used in the construction of the water draw-off tower built by Manchester Corporation.....
@@Brian-om2hh No i think we are getting our wires crossed.
The prefabs were for the workers.
For the time cutting edge with central heating and hot n cold running water.
The people who lived in the village go a cash offer and relocated locally.
but some refused and were forced out by the courts, police and the water.
Some relocated locals burned a worker's house as protest.
Later the prefabs were let out by the water company if i remember.
We tried to move into one in the early 80s but they were being run down until the last old man passed away.
He was there in the 90s, the only one i think.
There's a book on it i was given in the 80s about it all
Haven't seen it for a while now so it may be lost.
Been here many times with the dogs, beautiful place to be.