Conny Tammy Currack Richmondshire Yorkshire

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Bloody Wall and Bloody Vale

There must be something up here that gave the locals a hard time, for them to have felt the need to swear at these features when giving them names. They don't look like the sort of places that light up red catching the rising or setting sun which is often an excuse for this type of nomenclature. The stream just here is Black Gutter which, when joined by Tarn Sike (draining from Summer Lodge Tarn) becomes Croft Beck.

Andy Waddington

Black Gutter

The eroding south bank of Black Gutter readily shows why it is so named as the scree is very dark. It appears to be part of the Main Chert, which interbeds into sandstones and shales, with a small coal seam in places below the Little Limestone, but that doesn't seem to be the outcrop here. Impending loss of visibility and distance from any paths precluded my having time for a closer look. The stream flows east, to be fed by the outlet of Summer Lodge Tarn and becomes Croft Beck, in the interestingly named Bloody Vale.

Andy Waddington

Askrigg Common road ascends Oxnop Gill

This is one of the two "main" roads, from mid-Swaledale to Askrigg in Wensleydale, and if you think it looks a bit narrow, try the far sketchier tiny road on the north side of Oxnop Gill (above the horizon left in this view). It's clear that it doesn't take a lot of snow to block these roads, and as there are no farms this high, ploughing the road (needed for milk tankers to reach dairy farms) is very low priority. They are steep at both ends near the main valley floors - very hard work on a bike and no safe way to enjoy a speedy descent either !

Andy Waddington

Tarn Seat

Beacon on Tarn Seat with Summer Lodge Tarn beyond.

Colin Gregory

Satron Tarn

This small tarn lies half a mile west of the much larger Summer Lodge Tarn.

Colin Gregory

Blea Barf

The southern aspect of the hill

Colin Gregory

Summer Lodge

Looking down to Summer Lodge with Scurvy Scar on the right.

Colin Gregory

Valley of Summer Lodge Beck

Summer Lodge Beck drains northwards into Swaledale; the hill seen across the valley is Blea Barf.

Trevor Littlewood

Road to Summer Lodge

The sign says unsuitable to vehicles

Alexander P Kapp

Long Band

With Greets Shooting House in the distance

Alexander P Kapp

Cattle grid near Fleak Moss

Colin Grice

Wall by the road above Summer Lodge Pasture

Colin Grice

Greets Shooting House ruin

Colin Grice

Semerwater seen from Windgate Greets

Interesting distant view of Semerwater showing it's unusual elevated location above Wensleydale. More information about semerwater from here. Link

"Semer Water is a natural lake of glacial origin, a rare feature and one of the largest in Yorkshire. It was dammed at its lower end by glacial debris and was formerly much bigger reaching further up Raydale; the overflow from the lake formed the gorge and falls of the River Bain above Bainbridge. The former course of the Bain at the Countersett end is blocked by a drift tail. "