A view up Swaledale, North West Yorkshire, taken in September 2000. At some point around here Swaledale becomes Birkdale so this might be either. The river below is the Swale. The stream coming in from the right is Witsundale Beck and the stream to the left is Birkdale Beck. The farm up the hill to the right of the trees is called Hoggarths.
This is a view looking down the dale, to the East, standing by the entrance to the farm. The cars on the road are being held up by a herd of sheep which have just been driven out of the farm and which were taken across the river to the fields on the other side.
If you look at the Web Pages for the Old Maps (start from Keld which is a hamlet just down stream) you will see that in 18?? "Hoggarths" is marked as being over on the south side of the river; probably just out of the right of this photo.
I thought that may be just a mapping error - however in Oct 2007 I received an
email from Alison HAMILTON (Northumberland HOGGARTHs) who said "Hoggarths
in Swaledale, I called there in the late 1970s and, talking to the residents of
that time, elicited that the original Hoggarths, on the other side of the river,
had been subject to flooding and was, eventually in the 1800s, given up on and
replaced by the present building, above the floodline. Plus ca change,
etc. etc.! They had photographs going back to the earlyish part of
last century, I think into the '30s, if not the '20s. Whether a search of
local newspaper records could pin down the frequency of flooding that
triggered this, I don't know."
This is the farmhouse. The wooden sign to the right of the drive says "camping". The wooden sign on the wall says "Hoggarths". Note that it is not Hoggarth's. The place is called Hoggarths. It is not a farm belonging to a person called Hoggarth.
