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Brackenber Moor, Murton
Brackenber Moor
civil parish:-   Murton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   moor
coordinates:-   NY71561965 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY7119
10Km square:-   NY71

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 15 4) 
placename:-  Brackenber Moor
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.

ghost story:-  
In the 18th century a man living on the moor was murdered by his brother who lioved with him; the body was never found, the brother never tried for murder except by local gossip. The murdered man's ghost haunted his house and the tarn from that time. And noone travelled across the moor at night. But George Pearson from Brough did:-
"'Twas on a wild and dreary night
As o'er bleak Brackenber I hied,
No friendly planet lent its light
The wand'rer's lonely steps to guide."
"The gathering ists round High Cup close
And Murton-pike, too, slept in clouds,
While the long swell of night winds rose
From distant Flakebridge's gloomy woods."
"The leaden clouds swung slowly by,
And like a vast portcullis hung,
The lightning, glared along the sky,
No thunder-peal its message rung."
"The Moorland Tarn I hurried past,
The curlew screamed above my head,
And on the pennons of the blast,
Came murmurs hoarse and sounds of dread."

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