OS Map circa 1833 to 1834 showing Bleak Moor
Enlarged
House and enclosure noted in 1833 !
OS Map circa 1870
OS Map circa 1840 to 1880
OS Map circa 1888 to 1950
Basic layout unchanged the buildings may have been updated and stock sheds (Cow, sheep and pigs) erected. Also small well fenced off from the pasture.
Google Image of Blakemoor Flat with house numbers and gates to hill noted.
More recent Google image 2023?
Blakemore Flat 1969 with Blakemoor Gate to the left and The Paddock in the distance.
Also Castle Ring in the foreground and interesting straight lines of hedges in Crows Nest Dingle.
Foxhall 1847 Tythe Map
Blakemore Flat with green overlay for Foxhall Field Names 1847 (work in progress) Map circa 1891
From Foxhall tith map 1847 with type of pasture and tenant
Spreadsheet of Foxhall 1847
Above names and dates of people living at Blakemore Flat from spreadsheet work in progress.
Annie May Evans Marriage certificate while living at Blakemoor Flat and married at Lordshill Chapel.
Viola lutea (Mountain Pansy) growing in the fields
Snowdrops in front of No2 and Vaccinium myrtillus (Winberry) flower on the hillside above
Harebell Campanula rotundifolia with Heather Calluna vulgaris and Winberry Vaccinium myrtillus (top right) in the hedge bank at Blakemore Flat 2008
Crab Apple in Hedge
I have had a lot of arguments about White Winberries (Vaccinium myrtillus var. leucocarpum) and people did not believe that they existed. I can assure you that i have seen a plant within 400 yards of Blakemore Flat and tasted it. Here is a picture of one and if anyone finds one i would love to know and i have a company which will propagate it. Here is a link to an information page.
Out on the hill in sheltered spots Gorse Ulex europaeus in flower showing where the sheep have eaten the new tender growth before it hardens and becomes spiney. There is a double species Ulex europaeus flore plena. Gorse is day neutral so it flowers all the year around but shows most in spring.
Above and below Garden down the slope across the field where Potatoes and Peas were grown with manure from the stock.
The well marked on OS maps is just down from here for easy watering in the summer. This would have been a moist area anyway because it is situated on the path of the spring from the hill above No2 down to the well and then on down to form a stream before joining the Crowsnest Dingle stream.
The main Vegetable Garden was behind No 2 Blakemoor Flat
View towards Blakemoor Flat No 2
Daffodils in the field originally planted in an EE pattern by Evelyn Evans in the 1930.s
The sheep which grazed these fields until circa 1963 were marked EE and 2 dots in Red on each side of the rump.
No 1 Blakemoor Flat
No 1 Blakemore Flat
Last inhabited by Annie May Salter (Evans) and Beryl Ivy Salter circa 1930
No 2 Blakemoor Flat
How No2 Blakemoor Flat looked when standing
End wall facing field
Looking into House from Garden/Field hedge
View from No 2
Last inhabited by Mary Isabella Evans, Annie May Salter and Evelyn Gertrude Evans circa 1947
Land grazed by Annie May Salter to circa 1963
The yard at No2 Blakemoor Flat wall to left house to right close
I think this was a very small cow shed or pony stable to the left.
This was the pigsty towards the hill on right.
This was the haystack with 2 fallen posts to left and foreground the 2 further ones are just visible in the background.
These were erected circa 1955 on an original base behind the pigsty.
Very recent wall (since 2000) where the gate in the yard led out onto the hill.
