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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.2km<br/>Taken whilst staying on Crosslands Caravan site
©Bev Dickinson
Dist:0.5km<br/>The footpath crosses over this channel (probably man-made to drain the moss) via these stone slabs. Black Brow (268m) is the heavily wooded top in the background.
©Karl and Ali
Dist:0.5km<br/>A small hamlet that takes its name from the moss that once occupied the flat grazing land in the valley to the east.
©Karl and Ali
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©Keith Wright
Dist:0.6km<br/>Possibly "Bright White Hall" when the sun is out?
©Karl and Ali
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©David Long
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©Karl and Ali
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©David Long
Dist:0.7km<br/>Ashes Beck runs in the line of trees to the right. At the far end of the pastures are the cottages of Thwaite Head with the heavily-afforested Black Brows (268m) beyond.
©Karl and Ali
Dist:0.7km<br/>Arthur Mitchell Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and educated in Windermere and Rugby. he lived for a time in Russia, where he met his second wife Evgenia Shvelpina, Trotsky's secretary. Ransome married Evgenia and returned to England in 1924. Settling in the Lake District, he spent the late 1920s as a foreign correspondent and highly-respected angling columnist for the Manchester Guardian, before settling down to write Swallows and Amazons and its successors. Today Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of novels, (1931 - 1947). All remain in print and have been widely translated. Arthur Ransome died in June 1967 and is buried at Rusland Church in the Lake District.
©Lakeland Ramblers
Dist:0.7km<br/>Stables dating from the 16th Century at The Syke, Rusland. With iron roof, where a gritter slid into the stable and knocked the slate roof off!
©Alpacaandrea
Dist:0.7km<br/>That's a mean looking caravan parked next door. They keep Fell Ponies www.lakedistrictfellponycentre.com and (more exotically) alpacas www.ruslandvalleyalpacas.weebly.com at the farm.
©Karl and Ali
Dist:0.7km<br/>Farm house dating from c1565 in the beautiful Rusland valley.
©Alpacaandrea
Dist:0.7km<br/>Kissing Gate and footpath that passes through the churchyard at Rusland Church.
©mauldy

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