This has been placed with permission of the RSPB. Having been brought up as what we would call a bottom ender and not over the bridge (railway bridge); this is an area that we often frequented.
The hollow (pronounced locally as the holler) was in those days an area of scrub land and dangerous sand pits.
From where you are you can see what remains of the old sea wall known as the inner barrier, built in the nineteenth century to keep the land from flooding the iron ore mine which was below. Not long after the sea wall was built it started cracking and subsided, hence the building of the current outer sea wall at the turn of the twentieth century. The mines closed in the late 1960's and so with the mine pumps being closed down, we are left with the lagoon as you see it. While walking around look out for the redish soil and water being a classic sign of iron ore.
While the mines were working, on this place stood an engine shed with a pumping station inside to clear water out of the mine. Which brings me to this spot. You can see a gully which took the water away, and in the stream it made, as kids we would collect tiddlers such as minnows, elvers (baby eels), and sticklebacks, a lot of kids these days probably have never seen a stickleback.
To get to the shore we had to follow the road around as the path those days took you across what was an active iron ore mine called Annie Lowther Pit. This is now part of the Hodbarrow RSPB area where walking with dogs is permissible. In more inclement weather it can get a bit muddy if you are doing all in the series, and for the more energetic cachers you can complete the walk around the outer barrier taking in the lighthouse and the RSPB hide on the sea wall on the way to Haverigg. There is no reason to remove the cache from the ground just flip it. This goes for them all and its a BYOP.
Kudos to Snakes 77 for FTC.