Belle Grange as another possible Beckfoot


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Posted by Duncan on March 12, 2012 at 05:57:13 user Duncan.

The house that I decided (rather unilaterally) was Beckfoot when I was a child was Belle Grange. Growing up has changed my views on many things AR-related (I now accept that the Secret Harbour is undoubtedly on Peel Island, for example, though I still hold that Ramp Holme played its part...) and the two main problems with my Belle Grange thesis are:

a) I know of no connection between AR and the house or its occupants!
b) Although some aspects of the location are wonderfully "Beckfooty" it lacks the rather important presence of an Amazon River! (Although, to be far, so do most of the other suggested Beckfoots).

I attach a link to a photograph of Belle Grange that conjures a real sense of Picts and Martyrs.

I've looked at some old maps and note that the promontory at Belle Grange used to be called the "mount" and it is a much higher piece of ground jutting out into the lake, like none other in that area, providing a useful Beckfoot promontory. There is a boathouse. There is no River Amazon despite a few little becks. Indeed, despite the other shortcomings of Huyton Hill as a Beckfoot - Pull Wyke does undoubtedly make a good mouth of the River Amazon.

But there is something about it... It was "the house" in that part of the lake. It's a very big house but does not feel enormously over-sized like some of the suggested Beckfoots... Hmmm...

(My original logic for deciding Belle Grange was Beckfoot was almost entirely geographical).



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