A grim old Yorkshire Day.

Heading towards that LAKE in the distance. Lake Gormire.

It’s been on our hit list for years. It’s one of those LAKES that has had many old legends attached to it.

It’s BOTTOMLESS and as such it’s a gateway to Hell. Bottomless or 22ft deep if you believe the geological measurements….

It has a prehistoric monster, just not as famous as the one in Loch Ness….

A headless horseman who rides around its shores at night…..

A witch who could transform herself into animals, who jumped into the Lake to escape being burned at the stake and reappeared almost instantly in a local market town, many miles away…. That’s clever as the local bus only runs a couple of times a day, not at weekends and if it turns up it’s running monumentally late…..

Not to be outdone, a Goose apparently did the same Lake disappearing trick ….

A village once stood here but an earthquake swallowed up the buildings, just leaving a lake in their place. Occasionally, when the stars align, you can see the village if you look really carefully into the water….

A mighty castle once stood proudly here, but the owner murdered his wife and as punishment a mighty flood submerged the castle…..

One lake fact which can be confirmed, it was once named by The Times in a list of the top 20 natural swimming locations in the country. Without any feeder rivers or streams, it apparently has hardly any current and has an unusually warm feeling.

On this grim old day these were the only beasts we encountered.

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  7. So, what about the swimming pigs of that lake? They only come for a swim in moonlight, when the moon is most bright and the days are long. They swim in circles to represent the moon. Intelligent creatures that cannot be seen by people who believe in the tooth fairy. If you stare at them long enough, your hair falls out and you get warts on your face. Well, that’s what I made up before breakfast, but it could be true.

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  8. Turns out that we have been in the area many times and managed to survive without ever learning there was a lake. I am ashamed of my ignorance. Some of he legends seem less likely than others. 🙂

    I’ve been to Middlesbrough, so unless Hell has two entrances I think we can cross that one off the list.

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      1. When I lived in Middlesbrough my flatmate had his car stolen. It was abandoned less than a mile away and by the time he got to it the battery had gone and windows were broken.

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  13. Gary this is a beautiful place and I can well imagine how romantic it must look like with a little bit of sun. Btw. over here we have had rain for days and the forecast says rain, rain rain at least until the end of the week plus temps below 20°C.

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