Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	Lobwath, Matterdale
	possible
	Lobwath
	Lobbs Wath
site name:-	Mosedale Beck
locality:-	Lobbs
civil parish:-	Matterdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	ford (?)
locality type:-	flood
coordinates:-	NY35742482 (guess)
1Km square:-	NY3524
10Km square:-	NY32
references:-	Clarke 1787
evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 65 2)
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. A path suggests a crossing, and there is an unclear bridge. The area just north is shown scattered with rocks.
evidence:-	old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:-  Lob Wath item:-  storm, 1749; rain; flood, 1749
source data:-	Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.   goto source Page 57:-  "This rivulet [Mosedale Beck] ... is remarkable for having been the scene of the most dreadful and destructive inundation ever remembered in this country, and of which may awful vestiges may to this hour be traced; this happened on the 22d of August 1749. ... The most dreadful vestiges of this inundation, or water-spout, are at a place called Lob-wath, a little above Wallthwaite: here thousands of prodigious stones are piled upon each other, to the height of eleven yards; many of these stones are upwards of 20 ton weight each, and are thrown together in such a manner as to be at once the object of curiosity and horror. Those who wish to see this place must turn in at a gate (marked in the Plan) which leads towards Wallthwaite, and is just before you arrive at the eleventh-mile post: it is necessary, however, to inform travellers, that they must proceed either on horseback or on foot to visit it, as a carriage will hardly be able to pass this road."

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