From April 2013 the Parish Clerk will be Suzanne Pender, 2 Tarnside Quarry, Crosthwaite, LA8 8BU witherslackparishclerk@gmail.com
Many thanks are extended to the outgoing Clerk Ann Kerr for her outstanding service to the Parish
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With spring well on its way, everything will soon be bursting with green. Please remember that there can be ticks in grassy or ferned areas so check yourself carefully after a walk. http://witherslack.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/April.pdf Download the Minutes for July 2012 Minutes July 12 (Word Document) http://witherslack.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Minutes-July-12.doc
Walk 10 Yewbarrow Distance: 2 km (1.75 miles) Time: 40 min Parking: St Paul’s Church Grade: Easy Maps: Ordnance Survey This walk makes a pleasant evening stroll with wonderful views of the Winster Valley and Whitbarrow Scar. The path starts from opposite the Old Vicarage and climbs through woodland until it meets a bridleway where you turn left. Where the track levels out look for a narrow path to the left which leads in a few metres to a splendid view point overlooking the church. Retrace your steps and continue uphill to a wall with a gate and a stile. Go over the stile and bear left. You are now in open countryside with Yewbarrow’s two small grassy summits ahead. Wander over the summits and enjoy the views. Retrace your steps to return to the starting point.
Walk 1 Halecat Woods and Yewbarrow Distance: 11.5 km (7 miles) Time: 3Y2 hours Parking: on the old A590 SW of the Derby Arms (GR 441829) Grade: Easy Maps: Ordnance Survey Pathfinder Series SD 48/58 Outdoor Leisure 7 Set off in a southerly direction on the old road through the filling station and restaurant car park. Take the track to the right (SP Halecat). Go through a gate and then a stile by a gate into a long narrow field. At the farthest left hand corner climb a stile (WM) and follow the path through woodland. Pass through a gate and continue until the track broadens out. At a crossing of paths turn left downhill, bearing right through a crumbling wall, until you reach a firm track. Turn right and follow round to join a tarmac road. Turn right and right again at a T-junction. After 120 m take a track on the left and at the end turn right. * Continue on the road for 3 km to High Low Wood farm. Turn right through the farmyard, go through a gate and cross a field to a stile by a gate into woodland. Go uphill until you come to an unfenced tarmac road. Turn right and in lkm turn right (SP Knot Wood and Halecat) to take a track past Lawns House on your left. Bear right to a gate (WM) and follow the track until it peters out, then bear right (WM) uphill to a gate and stile in the wall (WM). Take the bridle path which brings you down to the road, making a small detour to the right in about 400 m to admire the view from ‘The Noddle’. Turn left onto the road and just round the bend at High Fell End turn right (SP Latterbarrow). Pass houses on either side and go through a gate and downhill to the bottom right hand corner of the field, through another gate into some scrubby land. Continue on the bridle path to the back entrance of Latterbarrow Nature Reserve. Bear left downhill to come out on the old A590. Turn left to return to the starting point. *The walk can be shortened by turning right at Knot Wood (GR 427860) and going through the wood towards Witherslack Hall farm, but turning right just before reaching it. Abbreviations used in the text are: WM = Waymark SP = Signpost NB Some fields and paths can be very muddy. High Fell End, was particularly noted for its damsons, along with the Lyth & Winster Valleys. They were very popular in pre-second world war days with the jamming factories. The wholesalers of Lancashire and Yorkshire bought up the crop in Kendal fruit market. All this has finished now because in general jam is being bought in supermarkets instead of being made at home. The jam has a nutty flavour and damsons can be used in sweet as well as savoury dishes, and makes a good chutney. People still come by car to see the damsons in blossom in April and May. and to pick in September and October or to buy damsons from the farms. In the last year or two the Westmorland Damson Association has tried to arouse interest in the damsons again, and is doing very well. They now meet regularly in the spring selling damson trees, promoting and advertising the sale of damsons and damson products. They have printed a book(l) from which the following recipe comes. Witherslack Cobbler For the base: 2lb ( 1 kilo) damsons, about 8oz of water to cover fruit For the scone topping: 2oz (57g) margarine, 8oz (227g) self raising flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1oz (28g) sugar, Fresh or sour milk to mix Stew the damsons, remove the stones and put puree into a greased pie dish. Mix flour, baking powder and sugar and rub in margerine. Mix dough with 7 tablespoons milk, roll out on to a floured board and cut into small rounds. Place the scones overlapping each other in a ring on the puree, brush with milk and cook for about 30 minutes near the top of a fairly hot oven. The Dean Barwick Charity was set up at the bequest of Dean John Barwick’s Will in 1664 making Peter Barwick, his younger brother, his sole executor. Peter augmented the Charity through the acquisition of the customary rents of the Manor of Haresceugh in the Parish of Kirkoswald in 1660 and conveyed these lands to the Trustees in 1666. In 1885 the Charity Commissioners limited the Trustees to seven representative, and six co-opted by the Parish Council, and that is how it stands to– day. The origin of the Charity, to provide a school for the inhabitants of Witherslack, to provide an income for apprenticeships for poor boys, a dowry for poor chaste maids, fuel for the poor and infirm and for the upkeep of the highways. All the things that did not exist when he was a boy. To day the school and the upkeep of the highways have been taken over by the County Council. Although it is no longer a private affair grants are still made to these when required. The apprenticeships for poor boys are entirely different now, they are no longer ‘put to a master’ at an early age, but they have grants when they start work towards their tools, or grants per annum when they go to university towards their books. The dowry for ‘poor chaste maids’ is still the same. They apply for the grant and doctor’s certificates are required to state they have not had a baby during the first twelve months of marriage. Fuel for the poor and infirm are however still given in the form of bags of coal or electricity stamps. The Charity has been modified over the years by the Charity Commissioners but it essentially follows the same principles of its benefactor. The Trustees still meet twice a year to administer the Charity. Haresceugh Castle had been causing a few problems with several letters between the relevant solicitors when the present tenant died in 1919. The Parish Council met and discussed this and it was resolved that it should be put up for sale at no less than £5,000. It was reported in the minutes that in 1921 Haresceugh Castle had been sold and that the money should be put into consolidated stock. The Brockbank or Simpson Ground Charity was formed in 1755 by John Brockbank; the Curate from £130.00 collected from several legacies for the benefit of the poor of Witherslack. ‘One undivided fourth part or share of land or buildings’ known as the Simpson Ground Farm of Cartmel Fell containing 186 acres, 1 rood and 36 perches. This became defunct and in 1994 the Charity Commissioners advised the Council to merge it into another charity in the Parish. |
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