Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
 |
|
| 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." |
||
|
|
||
Lakes Guides menu.