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Arkengarthdale, RICHMOND, DL11 6HA

The same barn as Image above Arkengarthdale.

The same barn as Image

This photograph shows a view of a section of Scarhouse Lane (a track) which runs between Stang Lane (to the right) and Scar House (to the left). The section of track depicted in this image runs along the near-side of the stone wall seen in the foreground of the picture. Stang Lane (walled) can be seen in the right-hand side of the image The picture was taken looking in a west-south-westerly direction towards Great Pinseat.

View across the dale from the CB Inn beer garden. Arkle Beck runs through the dale.

The bridleway follows a good Landrover track just below Windegg Scar, and as the Valley of Shaw Beck drops away into Arkengarthdale, excellent views up the dale open up. The expanse of bare stones on the right of the photo is a mine waste tip from nineteenth century lead working on the Freemans Vein above. The woodland beyond Stang Lane is Eskeleth Wood, which shows promise of being bigger in the future as there is quite a lot of new planting in tree shelters in the valley upstream. On the far horizon are Rogans Seat and Water Crag, within a few metres of the same height on Gunnerside and Arkengarthdale Moors.

One of several such ruins in Arkengarthdale. This one is unnamed on old 6" maps, but seems typical of the type once lived in by lead miners and families. It has often been said that lead miners were also part time farmers [the reverse is also true], with much of the farming done during the summer and the mining through the winter, neither occupation usually earning enough on its own. Update - July 2022.. the house is known as Carter's Cottage and has recently been on the market for £190,000 along with nearly 55 acres of land, but it might take more than a lick of paint and new window frames to put it right, and how do you get to it in a vehicle?

On the line of a not very obvious bridleway which hugs the wall side here. Hill Side is the name given to this area on the edge of the moor, where there was once a scattering of cottages, mostly inhabited by lead miners and their families. The view across Arkengarthdale is towards the CB Yard where some buildings associated with the long gone lead industry have been converted into cottages. Beyond this can be seen the remains of the double flue that ascended the hillside from the two smelt mills that once stood here.

A pleasant green track high above Arkle Beck.