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Blindcrake is a small village of around 100 inhabitants to the north east of Cockermouth, built on the site of a one time British settlement.
Sheltered by Moota Hill and Clints Crags, Blindcrake today is basically a farming village...there are seven farms nowadays with farming mainly mixed with dairy, suckler beef and sheep.
The eighteenth century houses and farms surround a neat little green in one of the most north-westerly villages in the National Park. Many of the hsues have 'date-stones'showing the years 1719,1728 and 1729.
The most imposing house in the village is undoubtedly Blindcrake Hall with its elegant Georgian facade. To the rear of the Hall is the town well which was the village's only water supply until 1936.
The village green was at one time a pond known as Mortar Dub, and was used for watering stock and washing horse's legs after ploughing. It was drained in 1900 and replaced by four drinking troughs. At one time the village had the unusual custom of burying its dead horses in the village, most of them in the south-east corner. One such gravestone has been marked 'Marmaduke' and belonged to the vicar of Isel.
The most famous character here would have been Adam Slee, who died as recently as 1988. He lived at Woodlands and his flair for painting was shown on the walls of his house. Coach parties would stop just to admire his handiwork.
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