Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 10, 2006 at 18:27:52 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Beckfoot posted by John on March 10, 2006 at 17:26:08:
Crag, the house my parents owned in Ennerdale - formerly a 17th century farm - had an old bath feeding from the rapidly flowing Ben Ghyll high on the fellside, from which a pipe led to a secondary tank a few yards above the fell wall and rather higher than the top of the house roof 50 yards away. This contained a fairly elementary filter which connected to an underground pipe leading to a conventional roof tank supplied through a ball cock just as though the supply pipe had come from the water mains. The water was lovely.
Judging from the picture in PM such an arrangement would have been perfectly feasible at Beckfoot, subject to there being a good primary source higher up. The beck beside the Dogs Home doesn't sound particularly safe, although the D's used it as a supply.