Watendlath Tarn.
Chatting one day at Watendlath with a New Zealand professor of Geology he said that on his beginners course on glaciation the examples he used were all taken from the Watendlath valley, coming from New Zealand I found this amazing.
Interesting place name Watendlath. Norse in origin and perhaps references the agricultural practices of the tenth century residents. "The barn at the end of the lake". Implies a form of transhumance farming. Transhumance from the Latin, across the ground, in agricultural terms moving from summer to winter pastures - think Heidi.
Walking around the tarn the pollarded Ash trees are ancient and the boundary walls to the fields are in some cases not the eighteenth century enclosure walls but the original massive walls formed when the fields were first cleared of stones for planting perhaps over a thousand years old, hard to date a stone wall!!
Watendlath is a landscape that merits some serious pondering.
Watendlath Tarn.
Chatting one day at Watendlath with a New Zealand professor of Geology he said that on his beginners course on glaciation the examples he used were all taken from the Watendlath valley, coming from New Zealand I found this amazing.
Interesting place name Watendlath. Norse in origin and perhaps references the agricultural practices of the tenth century residents. "The barn at the end of the lake". Implies a form of transhumance farming. Transhumance from the Latin, across the ground, in agricultural terms moving from summer to winter pastures - think Heidi.
Walking around the tarn the pollarded Ash trees are ancient and the boundary walls to the fields are in some cases not the eighteenth century enclosure walls but the original massive walls formed when the fields were first cleared of stones for planting perhaps over a thousand years old, hard to date a stone wall!!
Watendlath is a landscape that merits some serious pondering.