Moo Mountain - The Dead Line Traditional Cache
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Moo Mountain - The Dead Line
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Film cannister.
May be muddy/wet and loss of gps signal possible due to tree coverage. Parking available on side of road near motorway bridge. Single track road, do not block as used by farm vehicles.
At the top of this track you may like to take a look at Ladywell, Fernyhalgh. (pronounced 'Ferny'uff) consists of a few farms about three miles north-east of Preston. According to one source, the name means a 'Hidden, holy place', which certainly has some bearing on the legend collected by the Parish priest, Father Christopher Tootall, from his parishioners around the end of the seventeenth century. In 1471, a merchant, who was caught in a violent storm on the Irish Sea, vowed that if he was saved, he would undertake some work of great piety. The storm passed, and he reached the Lancashire coast unharmed, where he was instructed by a miraculous voice to search for a place called Fernyhalgh, and build a chapel where he found a crabtree bearing a fruit without a core, and a spring under it. After searching for a long time without success, he reached Preston, where he took lodging for the night. Soon afterwards, a serving girl excused her late arrival to him, saying that she had been pursuing a stray cow to Fernyhalgh. He was guided there the following day, finding the tree and spring, and also an unexpected statue of the Blessed Virgin. Here he built a chapel to 'God's honour and service'. Over the years, the place became a centre for pilgrimage, and the well was visited by people seeking cures for numerous afflictions.
It seems very likely that the statue discovered by the merchant belonged to a chapel which existed by the well long before. Documents exist which tell of a chapel on the site in 1348; perhaps this had fallen into disuse by 1471.
Hewitson described the well as it was in 1883: 'About a quarter mile south of Fernyhalgh Roman Catholic Chapel, there is a notable well, "Our Lady's Well". It stands on one side of and not very far from the road leading to the chapel. This is a very old well, and may still be seen. It is in the centre of a stone square, and is approached by half a dozen steps....'
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