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Moses' Trod
Honister to Wasdale Head
Wasdale Head to Honister
Moses' Sledgate
Moses Trod
civil parish:-   Buttermere (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Ennerdale and Kinniside (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   track route
locality type:-   packhorse route
10Km square:-   NY21
10Km square:-   NY20
10Km square:-   NY10


photograph
BPF09.jpg  On the side of Great Gable, from Wasdale Head.
(taken 20.5.2008)  
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BUX32.jpg (taken 20.5.2008)  


photograph
BNM86.jpg (taken 4.4.2007)  
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BNM87.jpg (taken 4.4.2007)  

hearsay:-  
The path is a well known route from Honister towards the coast at Ravenglass. It was used for slate from Honister quarry, taken by packhorse over the fell to export from the port. It is said that returning packhorses would be used for smuggled goods.
One quarryman who used this route was Moses Rigg, for whom the route is named, and who is said to have exported illicit whisky distilled at the Dubs.

hearsay:-  
O S Macdonald wrote a novel, George Ashbury, which describes Moses.

Macdonald, O S: : George Ashbury

place:-    Wasdale Head, Nether Wasdale
 Beck Head, Nether Wasdale
 Fleetwith, Buttermere
 Honister Pass, Buttermere

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