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August 2015

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Silverdale Holiday

Silverdale, Lancashire. Sun 23 Aug 2015

  
       
Lindeth Tower, where Mrs Gaskell wrote her novel 'Ruth'. A Grade II listed Victorian folly built by 1842 by the Preston banker Hesketh Fleetwood1842

Restored Lime Kiln at Jack Scout

Cove to the north of Jack Scout - which I think is called Cow's Mouth.

 

  Embankment at Jenny Brown's Point

 

 We walked down one of the coves to the shore close to Jenny Brown's Point.
Jenny Brown was a nanny who drowned here while saving the children she was looking after from the rising tide.
Or possibly just an old woman who lived on the shore in the eighteenth century. Or a woman who kept pigs here.
Or any story you care to make up.

The remains of a land reclamation scheme started in 1873 to reclaim the land between Jenny Brown's point and Hest Bank,
near Morecambe. It was an ambitious plan but the company ran out of money and it was abandoned.
Buried under the sand this embankment was revealed by a storm in 1977. It is now being eroded by the sea

Linda said "all this sand and we've not seen a single sandcastle" about a minute before we reached this point

  The embankment now has gaps in it
 
 

 

 

 

 

 Old railway wagons in a quarry - where the stone for the embankment came from

The remains of a quay for the copper ore 

Limestone pavements 
   

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