#mardale

My next story is based upon a true event which took part in the valley of Mardale in Westmoreland, now Cumbria about the sad loss of a once fine dwelling which was from the onset doomed by time and by

The year was 1919 and sad news reaches the folk of Mardale Green, they awoke to learn that the Manchester Water Corporation had just secured the long awaited Haweswater Act, a compulsory purchase agreement