Nidderdale Hidden village reappears

[alastairgott]

Just spotted this about the nidderdale area. Worth a visit if your caving in the nidd.

Scar House Reservoir: Sunken medieval village reappears

The settlement in North Yorkshire features on 16th Century maps and was home to 1,250 people.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ChrisJC]

Very cool. Hopefully no dead bodies have been found.

I wonder if it will fan the flames of the Nidderdale Peoples Front and their quest for independence. Will we see Cofiwch Scar House being sprayed on bus stops county-wide I wonder!

Chris.

 

[Ed]

Very cool. Hopefully no dead bodies have been found.

I wonder if it will fan the flames of the Nidderdale Peoples Front and their quest for independence. Will we see Cofiwch Scar House being sprayed on bus stops county-wide I wonder!

Chris.

Once we've sorted out that dodgy lot over the brow of Great Whernside the revolution will up a gear...

 

[RobinGriffiths]

It's the Nidderdale Popular Front you need to look out for. Splitters.

 

[afraidofthedank]

wow, i suppose you don't need to worry about the wind blowing water over the dam at the moment then!

 

[Goydenman]

wow, i suppose you don't need to worry about the wind blowing water over the dam at the moment then!

 

[Greybeard]

View attachment 14135

We were intending a trip into Goyden but decided to cancel.
Water was going over the overflows at Scar today producing a powerful flow going into the main entrance.
This was unexpected as rainfall over the last week has been quite low and I wondered if there was any engineering work going on at Angram.

 

[alanw]

I wondered if there was any engineering work going on at Angram.

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ANGRAM/IRE	10/11/2022	Scar House IRE
SCAR HOUSE/IRE	10/11/2022	River Nidd
SCARGILL/IRE	25/10/2022	Oak Beck
JOHN O GAUNTS/IRE	22/11/2022	Oak Beck

 

[mikem]

Almost 10mm on Saturday night was most recent:

Rainfall at Scar House Reservoir gauge - GOV.UK

Check the latest recorded rainfall at Scar House Reservoir gauge

check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk

 

[langcliffe]

Almost 10mm on Saturday night was most recent:

Rainfall at Scar House Reservoir gauge - GOV.UK

Check the latest recorded rainfall at Scar House Reservoir gauge

check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk

And that was why we were surprised.

 

[mikem]

They've been alternating 24 hour releases at gouthwaite (pateley bridge gauge shows the pattern remains the same further downstream):

River Nidd level at Gouthwaite - GOV.UK

Check the latest recorded river level and recent 5-day trend at Gouthwaite

check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk

 

[Goydenman]

Our club were up there on the 26th and we noted a lot of surface flooding ...much more than Bingley where I live. Because working on the surface we did not go see the reservoir but surprised to hear its full already

 

[Pitlamp]

Is this ongoing hosepipe ban in North Yorkshire really still necessary? I mean, what a pain trying to get caving gear clean when you can't blast it properly with water! Anyone know when it might be called off? Last time I looked at YW's website there was loads of information about the hosepipe ban but no clue as to when it's likely to end. (There is a lot of stuff explaining why it'sstill continuing, even though we've endured weeks of pestilential weather.)

 

[alanw]

On the other side of the Pennines, however:

Reservoir levels | United Utilities

Details about the levels of water in our main reservoirs - updated weekly

www.unitedutilities.com

27th November 2022	Actual stock	Change since last week	Average year	Last year
Regional Total	78.9%	5.2%	84.9%	80.4%
Carlisle	98.4%	0.0%	96.1%	96.6%
West Cumbria	99.4%	0.1%	99.7%	99.8%
Haweswater & Thirlmere	88.6%	4.9%	81.4%	75.6%
Pennine Sources	80.1%	7.6%	83.3%	84.7%
Dee & Vyrnwy Reservoirs	70.1%	4.2%	87.3%	79.5%

 

[Redmire]

Scar House and Gouthwaite have certainly filled quite quickly. Talking to a cyclist who’d done the loop round Scar House it appears Angram is also full.

 

[alanw]

Is this ongoing hosepipe ban in North Yorkshire really still necessary?

The ban ended today.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1600068049054441473

Although YW's web site hasn't yet been updated.

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[mikem]

This time last month reservoirs were still well below average, although 18th November update said they were starting to refill:

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[Pitlamp]

YAY! Back to trips in really filthy caves again!

;-)