#AmReading #Haweswater by Sarah Hall.
A lyrical elegy for the people who built the Haweswater Reservoir, for the familes who were exiled from their homes, for the smashed dwellings, and the drowned land.
The writing is wild and idiosyncratic, with vivid, compassionately drawn characters, breathtaking descriptions of the Cumbrian landscape, and prose so fierce and sensuous it stops me in my tracks.

#Bookstodon #fiction #books #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #reservoir

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jun/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview26

Haweswater, Westmorland, c.1970 - J Arthur Dixon Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/haweswater-westmorland-c-1970-j-arthur-dixon-postcard-220791723.htm

#Haweswater #Postcard #Postcards

Until the last male #GoldenEagle died in 2015, #Haweswater , on the rugged north-eastern fringe of the Lake District, was #England ’s final #refuge for the #BirdOfPrey .
Haweswater’s #wildlife is being given the chance to make a comeback, thanks to interventions made by RSPB, in #collaboration with the #water company #UnitedUtilities
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/10/haweswater-project-lake-district-rewilding-farming-jobs

#UK #rewilding #conservation #ProtectNature #biodiversity #nature #birds #animals #ecosystems #ecology #habitats #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild

“It was like flicking a switch, the natural process switch. As soon as the water started flowing through the winding channel, nature was back in charge again, and all of that diversity came back, almost as if by magic,”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/26/diversity-returns-to-lakeland-stream-after-restoration-puts-its-bends-back

#Swindale
#SwindaleBeck
#Rewilding
#Rewiggling
#Haweswater
#LakeDistrict
#Cumbria

@RSPBEngland