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Tottergill Farm presides over Castle
Carrock from its perch on the Pennines; seen and seeing for miles around. For those
who come from far and wide to holiday in its converted barns, it provides a spectacular retreat, a base for
exploration, a vantage point over the Solway Plain, the Lakeland and Scottish
hills. Turning in through the farm gate and starting the climb up the hill,
visitors pass a tree It is a Common English oak, the Champion Oak Tree 0f
Cumbria, with the largest girth of any in the county. It may be a relic from the
Forest of Geltsdale and has witnessed all that has happened on
Tottergill
land for possibly 800 years.
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The history of Tottergill is the story’
0f the people who have known this tree. For the most part their day’s were
bound up with the seasons, the farming year, village life and the changes that
affected all the lands along the border. The hand 0f history reached even this
quiet backwater and left its mark in border raids, power generation, water
supply and agricultural improvement.
Life at Tottergill today’ reflects
current farming trends, letting out the fields 0f grass for grazing and
diversifying Into tourism to generate income. The old barns and mill have found
new uses as
holiday
homes. The great wooden beams and sandstone walls are now appreciated for their
aesthetic value, more than their agricultural purpose But not so long ago, this
was a working farm, where crops were grown and fed to cows and sheep, pigs.
chickens and horses; where the weather dictated events, where travel was slow
and change even slower.
Castle Carrock near Brampton
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Tottergill Farm, Castle Carrock, Carlisle,
Cumbria CA4 9DP ENGLAND
near Brampton on
Hadrian's Wall
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