The Rigg and Wood Howe Island, high and dry. The beck which ran through the village, comes in from the left ,along side a wall under the Rigg and flows on under a bridge, still standing, The houses, pub and church now collapsed, are in a triangle between The Rigg, Wood Howe, and the trees in the foreground. The walls enclosing the lanes and fields were made of sterner stuff, and were still standing.

Margaret on the bridge on what was the lane out of the village. The combined waters of the becks of Nan Bield and Gatesgarth have found their natural channel down which they flowed before inundation.

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