Walking the Line 4 / Lakeland Dipper 54

Thirlmere
Harrop (extra)

Continuing my completely random not very straight 'walking' of the pipeline that takes water from Thirlmere to Manchester by gravity alone (taking about 32 hours to make its journey).
This is where it all begins and if you continue beyond the horizon for 96 miles you'll end up in Manchester. Prior to the 1890's it looked like this. After many years of surveying (Ullswater and Haweswater were originally suggested), getting stuck in bogs, falling off horses, getting lost on Helvellyn, persuading objectors that the beauty of the valley would be enhanced, and then the actual building work itself, it was completed in 1894. 

The rain gauges I was talking about in the first of this series are up Helvellyn ... the fell on the left of the blip. 

I was going to blip the dam today but the road is closed so I headed on up to Harrop. Before G got the job of 'walking the line' he worked as a forester up here from the age of 15 and did a lot of the planting and felling. One year after he died there was a big storm and one of the trees fell across the path. I counted the rings and reckoned it could easily have been one he planted and so used a piece to make an incense burner and candle holder.

'Fresh' was the word for the water today.