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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 | ||
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 BPF09.jpg On the side of Great Gable, from Wasdale Head. (taken 20.5.2008)  BUX32.jpg (taken 20.5.2008) |
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 BNM86.jpg (taken 4.4.2007)  BNM87.jpg (taken 4.4.2007) |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| hearsay:- |
O S Macdonald wrote a novel, George Ashbury, which describes Moses. |
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| Macdonald, O S: : George Ashbury |
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| place:- |  Wasdale Head, Nether Wasdale Beck Head, Nether Wasdale Fleetwith, Buttermere Honister Pass, Buttermere |
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