{"id":1865,"date":"2013-08-19T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphimages.wpengine.com\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:35:47","slug":"hardraw-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2013\/08\/hardraw-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardraw camping"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Campsite in\u00a0the\u00a0Yorkshire Dales\u00a0hamlet of Hardraw<\/a>\u00a0in Wensleydale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Signpost on a walk up Gunnerside Ghyll<\/a> from the Swaledale village of Gunnerside<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Remains of the lead mining industry in Gunnerside Ghyll. (L) Mine entrance and (R) peat store for the Blakethwaite\u00a0smelt mill.<\/p>\n

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(L) View towards to the top of the ghyll. The flue of the smelt mill used to run up the slope of the hill. (R) Top of the Bunton Hush – hushing<\/a> involved the release of dammed up water to scour away\u00a0the surface\u00a0and reveal mineral veins.<\/p>\n

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Heading back towards Gunnerside.<\/p>\n

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Views around the “Winterings” above Gunnerside.<\/p>\n

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Pictures of the village of Muker<\/a>. (R) The unusual Muker Literary Institute, a symbol of the wealth brought by the 19th C lead industry.<\/p>\n

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Pasture on the path from Muker.<\/p>\n

Buttertubs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The “buttertubs” on the Buttertubs pass between Muker and the Wensleydale valleys.<\/p>\n

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The buttertubs are limestone potholes reputedly used by farmers to keep their butter cool while they rested on the way to market.<\/p>\n

Waterfalls<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(L) Hardraw Force<\/a>, just next to the campsite, is claimed to be England’s highest unbroken waterfall at 100 ft. (R) Mill Gill Force, on a walk from Askrigg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dales fauna<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(L) Strange looking and rather large beetle-like insect. (R) A hedgehog that tried to bed down inside the tent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2,10],"tags":[94,135,40,95,43,47],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-places","category-uk","tag-animals","tag-hills","tag-industry","tag-rocks","tag-waterfall","tag-yorkshire-dales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}