Life During Lockdown

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From Colin Crabtree:

"Here is something totally different. It's an idea based on the Sunday Times 'Where Was I'. Hopefully it will provide a few minutes of entertainment for Members, based on their local knowledge and map reading ability.

The idea is that you imagine the route described and identify the features mentioned. Then answer the questions listed. To make it a bit more interesting, I will buy a drink for the Member who submits the first set of correct answers by Sunday 10th May."

"It's now Monday 11th May, and the answers are given below. Nobody got all the answers correct."

We begin this walk through history from a town with a name at least 9 others within the Kingdom can claim, though this one was granted a Market Charter in the 13th century.

Our starting point has a medieval sounding name, though not its original name, as it was the centre of a separate village.

On a bearing of 250 deg (approximately) we soon pass a 14 th century structure, originally used for holding courts, a few steps later and almost opposite, we arrive at another building, though much younger, designed by A & P who were renowned for such works. In the grounds of this building is a plaque in memory of half the population of the town, also here a famous artist is in permanent residence. When first introduced, the woman who became his muse was a model & actress.

Around the corner and down the hill, not a coven in sight. Originally it was most likely a place where the locals cut peat. Following a water course, not a Texas Hold’em here, we continue on for the rest of our journey in an approximately western direction, reaching the grounds of a house built for a mineral agent by a Duke.

Over the road and into fields, we go to a settlement named in the Doomsday Book, and was once described as a village standing on an eminence. It is one of the few places in the area to have been continually inhabited since the middle ages.

Down hill now (is that water that can I see !) to an area the origins of whose name suggest that it once could have been home to serpents or dragons all within a ravine; none to be seen today. What can be seen is definitely the areas oldest continuously inhabited building.

Nearly there, our final sections take us on a route that the Council illegally closed for 20 years, then if our timing is right we can dry shod make our final few yards to a village where an altercation between a man of the cloth and the locals took place.

I’m In need of a drink after all that, "Welcome!" says our host.

Questions:

1. Name of first town ? Dalton in Furness
2. In what year was the charter granted ? 1297
3. What is the starting point's original name ? Town End
4. What is the 14th Century structure is better known as ? Dalton Castle
5. What is the building called in which the plaque & artist are located ? St Mary's Parish Church
6. Who were the designers A & P? Austin & Paley
7. Who was the artist ? George Romney
8. Who was his muse ? Emma Hart
9. Where can you not see a coven ? The Haggs
10. What is the name of the water course ? Poaka Beck
11. What is the name of the house ? Millwood Manor
12. What was the name of the mineral agent & who was his benefactor ? Edward Wadham & the 5th Duke of Buccleuch
13. What is the original name of the village on the eminence? Heitun
14. Where is the home of serpents or dragons ? Ormgill
15. Where is the area's oldest continually inhabited building ? Ormsgill Farm House
16. Name the route closed by the Council? Cocken Tunnel
17. Where can we "dry shod make our way" ? The Meetings
18. Who was the man of cloth ? George Fox
19. Where did our host welcome us ? The Crown North Scale

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