Posted by Adam Quinan on October 07, 2024 at 13:42:48 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot Plumbing posted by John Nichols on October 06, 2024 at 08:57:42:
Many isolated houses in the Lakes collected water from small streams that run down the hillsides. However, these were not always safe to drink untreated as sheep seem to have a propensity to die and their decomposing bodies end up in the streams polluting the water.
It may be that Beckfoot called in a dowser to see if they could find an underground stream which could be tapped with less possibility of sheep pollution.
My grandfather apparently was a dowser and he did something like that when he sought out an underground stream to feed an ornamental pond in his garden.
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