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Lobwath, Matterdale
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Lobwath
Lobbs Wath
site name:-   Mosedale Beck
locality:-   Lobbs
civil parish:-   Matterdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   ford (?) 
locality type:-   flood
coordinates:-   NY35742482 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NY3524
10Km square:-   NY32
references:-   Clarke 1787

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 65 2) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
A path suggests a crossing, and there is an unclear bridge. The area just north is shown scattered with rocks. 

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Lob Wath
item:-  storm, 1749rainflood, 1749
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
image CL13P057, button  goto source
Page 57:-  "This rivulet [Mosedale Beck] ... is remarkable for having been the scene of the most dreadful and destructive inundation ever remembered in this country, and of which may awful vestiges may to this hour be traced; this happened on the 22d of August 1749. ... The most dreadful vestiges of this inundation, or water-spout, are at a place called Lob-wath, a little above Wallthwaite: here thousands of prodigious stones are piled upon each other, to the height of eleven yards; many of these stones are upwards of 20 ton weight each, and are thrown together in such a manner as to be at once the object of curiosity and horror. Those who wish to see this place must turn in at a gate (marked in the Plan) which leads towards Wallthwaite, and is just before you arrive at the eleventh-mile post: it is necessary, however, to inform travellers, that they must proceed either on horseback or on foot to visit it, as a carriage will hardly be able to pass this road."

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