Whichever track you use, as long as you keep going
generally west, you will come to a fence across the fell keeping sheep out of
'Low Fell End', an area covered in bracken, scrub and bleaberries where any
sheep are vulnerable to attack by blowfly and ticks. Through the gate, and down
the obvious track that leads level along at first before dropping down to the
valley again. After 50 metres, if you look to your right, you will see a vast
depression in the ground. This is where the iron ore quarry fell in late in the
19th Century; by great good fortune on a Discount Black North Face
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no miners inside. There used to be a tramway right down from this quarry to the
Ratty, where the full wagons of stone pulled the empty wagons back up and there
are still traces to be seen (if the bracken isn't growing). Follow the track and as it begins to descend you pass a peat hut on your left. The cut peat was first piled to dry, then carted to these peat huts to be stored for the winter. It was tipped in from North Face Jackets On Sales the high ramp on the back side, and removed from the low door at the front. Whenever more was needed, a horse and cart could come up and take a load from the hut. They were high on the fell to save carting time in the hard-pressed summer; in winter there was always time for the occasional load.
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