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Wythburn and Armboth

Thirlmere, Cumbria

Lake District hamlets drowned for Manchester, and a house with a ghostly wedding feast.

In the 1890s Manchester dammed Thirlmere to supply its growing population, raising the water level and drowning the hamlets of Wythburn and Armboth. Armboth House was said to be haunted.

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When
Flooded 1890s
Where
54.5600, -3.0700
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Car parks and paths run along the shores of Thirlmere. Wythburn church survives above the water.

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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