5/20/2023 0 Comments Swallowdale arthur ransomeone of the grandfathers there, on float-tackle ( SD15). When the Swallows saw it, they wished almost that they had made their camp on its rocky shores. The tarn is nearly a mile beyond Swallowdale, high on the top of the moor, a little lake lying in a hollow of rock and heather. I'll show you how to catch trout there ( SD10). Captain Flint says that Swallowdale has got a good trout tarn up above it. Trout Tarn is above Swallowdale, and the beck runs through it to Swallowdale. And to think that it's been here all these years and we never knew it ( SD13). The Amazons have not been to the valley before as We've never gone up to the moor from this side ( SD4) and Nancy says when she sees it It's the best hiding-place I've ever seen. On the moor above the valley is the Watch Tower Rock. As a boy, Captain Flint had called it Ben Gunn's Cave (one of the two occasions in Swallowdale where we learn something of Captain Flint's boyhood, the other one being the top of Kanchenjunga). On one side of the valley, hidden somewhat by heather and bracken, is Peter Duck's Cave. A beck flows from Trout Tarn, down one waterfall into Swallowdale, down another waterfall and eventually through steep woodland down to the lake at Horseshoe Cove, near Swainsons Farm. Swallowdale is a valley towards the southern end of the Lake, on the fells on the western shore. This article is so-called to avoid confusion with the book Swallowdale
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