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Looking across Slei Gill to the hamlet of Booze, and not a pub to be seen! The origin of the name 'Booze' is from 'boga' and 'hus' - a mixture of old English and Norse, meaning the house on the curve of the hill. In 1473 it was called 'Bowehous'.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.1km<br/>Booze (Norse for 'the house on the curved hillside') is now just a cluster of farm buildings, but was once a thriving mining community with more than 40 houses.
©Steve Partridge
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©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.1km<br/>The road to the delightfully named settlement at Booze climbs steeply from Langthwaite in Arkengarthdale before reaching this level stretch. The road is so narrow and steep in places that at one time recently there was a move by the Post Office to discontinue deliveries of mail; the threat must have passed for a PO. van was seen on the road shortly before this image was recorded.
©Trevor Littlewood
Dist:0.1km<br/>At the height of the lead mining activities in the middle of the nineteenth century there were over two hundred inhabitants in Booze. There are now just a handful with several houses in ruins. The hamlet is only accessible by a very steep road and was only connected to mains electricity in the 1960s. The name Booze probably means 'the house by the bend'.
©Mick Garratt
Dist:0.2km<br/>Abandoned buildings which were part of the once thriving mining community here
©Derek Voller
Dist:0.2km<br/>A remote hamlet in what was once a thriving lead-mining area.
©Gerald England
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©peter robinson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Calver Hill in the distance.
©Mick Garratt
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©peter robinson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Taken looking slightly South of East from the field at the rear of the cottage that is the subject of Steve Partridge's [[425812]].
©Derek Voller
Dist:0.4km<br/>Booze (Norse for 'the house on the curved hillside') is now just a cluster of farm buildings, but was once a thriving mining community with more than 40 houses.
©Steve Partridge
Dist:0.4km<br/>The workings on the hill behind are the remains of Fell End Lead Mine.
©Helen Wilkinson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The footbridge stands next to the ford on the track to Storthwaite Hall and is of the concrete beam type, typical of North Riding footbridges of the 1950's.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.4km<br/>A lead mine entrance at the foot of North Rake or Tanner Hush. A hush is the result of a crude method of ore extraction. A dam is built on a stream above the seam. When there is sufficient water the dam is burst and the resultant scouring by the torrent exposes the ore. Tanner Hush is one of the longest in the Dales and was worked for over two hundred years.
©Mick Garratt

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