Posted by Ian E-N on January 31, 2000 at 08:50:09 from es-electronics.lancs.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Re: Where has all the water gone? posted by Gordon on January 30, 2000 at 23:09:49:
Hmmm
>There used to be a weir at the foot of the lake that kept the lake level
>high enough to enable the copper barges (rowing but with subsdiary sail)
>to berth at Nibthwaite even in the driest of summers.
how much higher - a few foot more water would make the marshy area just
south of Brown Howe [ 28 90 ish] into a very satisfactory horse-shoe cove.
I