Il villaggio medievale sommerso riappare al serbatoio dello Yorkshire mentre la siccità peggiora
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/gallery/sunken-yorkshire-medieval-village-reappears-32345663
di Wagamaga
Il villaggio medievale sommerso riappare al serbatoio dello Yorkshire mentre la siccità peggiora
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/gallery/sunken-yorkshire-medieval-village-reappears-32345663
di Wagamaga
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Dramatic pictures show an abandoned medieval village that has reappeared after water levels fell.
The village was abandoned in the 20th century when Scar House Reservoir, situated in North Yorkshire’s Nidd Valley, was built in the 1920s.
The dramatic pictures were posted onto North Yorkshire Weather Updates with the caption: “Some of the roads and buildings at Scar House Reservoir this afternoon, this road would have taken you to Park Barn, Ings Bottom Barn, Harden Carr, West Houses, Angram then over the river ford to Lodge.”
Yorkshire officially moved to drought status in June this year after six months of below-average rainfall, which the Government says is combined with high temperatures which affected most of the country.
Reservoir levels across Yorkshire are notably low, meaning visitors to the reservoir got a peek of the abandoned village this weekend. Buildings, dry stone walls, gateposts and roads were all visible. The settlement – thought to have been knows as Lodge howses – was home to 1,250 people before the reservoir was created.
Leshp… Clatch is going to be furious. accidental Discworld
I’d be heading down there with a metal detector, if I had one, and lived anywhere near.
“Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake
at six o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a
handful of hot gravel, work twenty hour a day at the
mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would
thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were
LUCKY!”
If the UK has another dry winter and spring, we could be in serious trouble. As in water-intensive manufacturing shut down, and taps not working.
This used to be a rare sight, now we get one of these headlines once a year. Almost like temperatures are rising and droughts are getting worse…
But commercial sports grounds, can carry on watering pitches.
Calling it a mediaeval village is stretching it when the ruins are clearly much more recent