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Mardale Green

Haweswater, Cumbria

A Lake District village drowned to give Manchester water.

In the 1930s Manchester dammed the valley of Mardale to create Haweswater Reservoir. The village of Mardale Green, with its church and pub, the Dun Bull, was demolished, and 97 bodies were dug up from the churchyard and reburied elsewhere.

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When
Flooded 1935
Where
54.5000, -2.8200
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

A car park at the end of the road at Mardale Head gives views across the reservoir.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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