Outfall and weir from Blakemere Moss
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Outfall and weir from Blakemere Moss
Image: © Jonathan Kington Taken: 9 Mar 2010
The 2000 copy of the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 map shows Blakemere Moss as an area of marshland, although later editions show the lake. After talking to a local gentleman I found out that the Forestry Commission had decided to flood the marsh and they built this concrete dam to retain the water. To quote the gentleman- "they did it to try and make it like it was thousands of years ago"! Unfortunately looking at the soil here I rather think it was under the sea then!
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Image Location
Latitude
53.23712
Longitude
-2.668937