Barry Cockcroft, a Yorkshire TV documentary maker made this film in 1975 about Grisedale, which neighbours Mallerstang beneath Wild Boar Fell. There was also an accompanying book. It tells the story of the last remaining occupant of Grisedale in a time before widespread hill farming subsidies and before offcomers and holiday makers repopulated it and other valleys. I have just found that the original film is now available on BFIplayer linked here and it is a good portrait of people and place nearly 50 years ago.
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-dale-that-died-1975-online
Our mother’s funeral will take place tomorrow at Mortlake Crematorium in London and there will be a burial of the ashes on Sunday 8th August at St Mary’s Church in Mallerstang, where she was married and where her husband and our father Oliver is also buried. The order of service is attached here.
She lived a full and good life. She loved and was loved.
Hugh & Rory
Will be coming round the mountain in July!
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19258994.flying-scotsman-locomotive-will-visit-cumbria-july/
An annual event, which I missed again this year and am looking forward to coinciding with soon…
Mountain trek to raise charity cash
Christmas and New year are great times to be in High House and we usually fill it with family and friends. However, this year we will be away and so you have the chance to enjoy it yourselves.
Please see this page for booking dates (which can be flexible) and contact us if you are interested.
https://wildboarfell.com/accommodation/rates-availability/
Hugh & Penny
The Tour de France is coming near Mallerstang on 5 July 2014. This once in a lifetime event will see thousands of cycling enthusiasts and locals cram the route to see the world’s greatest road cyclists pass through.
Surely, one of the best spots for the opening day will be Buttertubs, where the riders will climb from Wensleydale and down into Swaledale. This is a hearty 7.5 mile walk largely across open fell from High House and subject to the weather I may give it a go.
Route details can be found here – http://www.letour.com/le-tour/2014/us/grand-depart.html
A grateful guest recently gave me a copy of this book by Val Corbett, a professional phtoogrpaher and Cumbria resident. It has stunning phtographs of the Eden Valley, including many of Mallerstang and one of them graces the front page of this website.
The book is well worth a look and can be bought here.
I heard the author interviewed on Radio 4 recently, where he described his walk along the watersheds of england – attempting to walk the pennines in between rivers rising to flow east and west, with Mallerstang being his favourite part.
If you missed the show it starts at 20:30 minutes into the broadcast here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yw1ph
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