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APPLEBY-IN-WESTMORLAND, CA16 6JG

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm70026

This OS cut mark can be found on the barn at Langton Farm. It marks a point 159.602m above mean sea level.

There is an OS benchmark Image on the road face of the far barn about 4m beyond a GR letter box in the wall

The fresh local sandstone construction looks quite colourful but will no doubt weather quite quickly to be a match for the other nearby properties. Open eaves on the nearest part of the building show that there is still work to do on the house, but the next main challenge will surely be the garden. It's a heavy clay soil left by the retreat of the Eden Valley glacier, but at least the site is not beset by the sort of rubble often seen on building sites. I wish them luck.

This farm ford is found on the Hilton Beck at Langton.

Hilton Beck runs along the northern and western edges of Brackenber Moor (Appleby Golf Course) and for the aficionado of obscure ditches who prefer their paddling not to be too scary, looks quite an attractive proposition. The level seen here is fairly high through snowmelt, but with some rain too it would perhaps be a little quicker from a put-in at Hilton to a take-out at Coupland. This view is from just upstream of the footbridge at Langton and shows what would, in lower water, be an easy ford. The beck seems relatively free of tree hazard for a lowland trip, but there is at least one livestock fence (just around a blind bend) to watch out for - there may be other hazards not seen on my walk (it was a dog walk, not a full river reconnaissance).

Ordnance Survey pivot benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm69944

This OS pivot can be found on the wall SW side of the road. It marks a point 164.857m above mean sea level.

There is an OS benchmark Image on a stone in the dry stone wall above the blue notebook