Re: Beckfoot; defining the problem


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Posted by Duncan on March 15, 2008 at 18:45:49 from 195.93.21.2 user Duncan.

In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot; defining the problem posted by Claire on March 15, 2008 at 17:37:33:

It is a good picture isn't it? You can see Ramp Holme in the foreground too. If you then follow it up (comparing with an 'endpaper' map, you could identify houseboat bay, etc. You can make out the white building of the Old Rectory there - there's a lovely stone boathouse on the shore below.

I always then took the LOCATION of Darien to be Ferry Nab (the pointy one, between Long Island and Ramp Holme). Jock suggested in an email that the one above it, Cockshott Point, is a possibility. It is certainly rockier, and is accessed along a path through a little wood from the Rectory. It's the wrong side of the bay, but then it might be a mirror image too...

If you take the west shore road north from the ferry (it's basically a path now, though you can drive some of the way to park along that shore) it 'ends up' at Belle Grange (it does actually kind of carry on through - much more path/track than road - and end up at High Wray). It's quite a bit south of Pull Beck. I'm becoming more convinced by that one! As Winter Holiday was main 'location bible' - it was perfectly possible to imagine them walking along the road to Belle Grange to semaphor to Nancy from the lawn (it would be rather more of a major expedition to get to Huyton Hill). However, it is much more likely that Nancy would have been able to see the Ds signalling from the North Pole from Huyton Hill, and that Nancy could have skated there reasonably comfortably!

Belle Grange is a pretty big house - but not a mansion. I don't think it's any bigger than the other houses that have been suggested (probably a little smaller than Huyton Hill).

It was also 'the house' on that side of the lake at one time. I don't know anything about the history of it though, nor who lived there.


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