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the left. This time carry straight on. natural structure of the plant is herdwick The path passes through some mature changed. A dense mass grows from a trees and there is a steep drop down single point, with the resulting structure to the beck. 15 resembling a broom or a bird’s nest. 16 Low Bridge end teA gArden 4.4 Pass through the gate into the fields.

(please make sure you shut it behind S BECK mAnAGEmEnT 17 t you or livestock may stray onto the J silver birch o Hogg Hole h n Over many years we have seen management changes as the open fell). Head towards the gate in S B 6 the wall. e National Rivers Authority became the Environment Agency and as c 14 k more emphasis was put on the Environment rather than 5.5 Turn right through the gate and maintenance and management. In years gone by this particular 13 5 follow the wall over the mound (is this stretch of water was regularly dredged to give a depth of river bed 4 natural or man made? Ask us at the 18 and the banks were man made, using boarding, gabions, stone farm) towards the beck. Please resist walls or placing huge rocks in the river bank to prevent the temptation to head for the erosion. Today, the practice is to allow the river to revert gateway in the next field wall. Why 19 to nature and take its natural course.

campion not? Because during the summer we shut these fields off for hay and we 12 In some cases this is fine; however, on this stretch of water it is don’t want our valuable winter impossible as Thirlmere provides an unnatural source of water feed crop being trodden down. because it is man made. Also you would miss some of the 3 11 beauty of the beck. 2 1 salmon 10 Follow the sign to Castle Rock viewpoint. Legburthwaite 10 Low Bridge end yarrow Look towards Helvellyn and the teA gArden southerly aspect of the valley. 20 1. Leave the car park at Legburthwaite 1 8 (toilets available here) by the gate at CLImATE ChAnGE 8 Pass through the gate and head through 11 Find a second sign for another the farm yard and the Tea Garden. From viewpoint, this time looking towards the far end and turn left along a 9 tarmac lane until you reach the A591. For much of the year St John’s Beck meanders through the fields, the Tea Garden, climb diagonally Blencathra and the northerly aspect of Turn right and cross St. John’s Beck. quite harmlessly, keeping within its bed. However, in times of following the steps up the hill. the valley. Look for the packhorse bridge heavy rain the story can be quite different. We have seen that crosses the beck at Sosgill. 2.2 Walk a few yards along the road until extreme weather in 1985, 1995, 2005 and again in the much you come to a ladder stile on your publicised flood of 2009. Although there have been extreme ST JOhn’S BECK right. Take the footpath signposted to weather episodes at other times, for example August 1967, the 7 St John’s Beck is an important salmon spawning site, with the young fry St John’s -in-the-Vale Church and valley did not flood because Thirlmere, the reservoir about a mile 21 and parr (young fish) thriving in its shallow runs and riffles. This is good Bridge House. south of the farm, was not full and was therefore able to help by news for the otters who patrol up and down the beck. holding the rainfall. In addition to rainfall and groundwater, the beck is fed by water released Should Thirlmere be used as part of a flood 22 from Thirlmere. This maintains stream levels even in a dry summer. It prevention and attenuation plan or should it be enables many kinds of insects and invertebrates to flourish, including used solely for Manchester’s drinking water and 23 6 stoneflies, mayfly and caddisflies. It’s also the ideal habitat for water loving share holders’ profits? plants such as watercress, monkey flower and water forget-me-not.

6.6 Having reached the beck follow the fence towards the next wall and back to the gateway. This gate way was severely damaged in the floods of 2009. We lost lengths of wall, the gate and the gate posts. A huge hole was Things to look for beside 5 gouged out to the depth of 6 feet in ST. JOhn’S BECK 4 the gateway itself. It makes you realise how powerful water is. On a warm summer’s day enjoy monkey flower a leisurely stroll beside the beck gfishers waterforg kingfisher kin et-me-not and you might be fortunate ippers monkey fl d ower f enough to see: lmon ritillar sa y but ers terfl dipper water forget-me-not ott y