Category: Torver
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Slate, Sheep, and Silence: The Legacy of Tranearth Quarry
The tranquil Tranearth Quarry, where wild swimmers now glide through waters once surrounded by industry. Amid Bronze Age cairns and abandoned slate, nature reclaims what human ambition left behind, watched only by sheep and time.
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Banishead Quarry
A consequence of man’s thirst for slate flagstones. The site comprises two large quarries, Eddy Scale and Banishead, dug on either side of Torver Beck which was left flowing down a ridge between the two. Eventually, a section collapsed creating a waterfall into Banishead. With no apparent drain, the water level quickly rose creating a…
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Torver Beck
Wet and wild in the Lakes so kept low. Torver Commons on the western side of Coniston water was one of my first Lakeland orienteering events. I remember getting hopelessly lost. The bracken meant I kept to the paths today. This is Torver Beck which drains a vast swathe of the Furness Fells, including the…