{"id":582,"date":"2022-09-11T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T12:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/?page_id=582"},"modified":"2022-09-11T14:12:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T14:12:48","slug":"piggford-moor-hammerton-knowl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/triskelepublishing.com\/weirdstonewalk\/piggford-moor-hammerton-knowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Piggford Moor & Hammerton Knowl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Approximate Location<\/strong>
OS Grid Reference: SJ 96978 69232
Latitude \/ Longitude: 53\u00b013\u203212\u2033N , 002\u00b002\u203248\u2033W<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A stretch of open moorland lying to the south-west of Shuttlingslow<\/a>. In Weirdstone, Chapter 20 – Shuttingslow<\/em>, Susan was inspired to make a desperate dash across Piggford Moor after the fugitives were assailed by a flock of birds on the southern ridge of the hill. She spotted that the morthbrood and their allies were thinnest on the moor and set off to make an escape in that direction. The journey took the travellers downhill, across the moor and into the bed of a stream. The latter is un-named in the book, but was probably the Highmoor Brook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highmoor Brook, looking north-west, further downstream from where the fugitives crossed and close to its confluence with the Clough Brook (Credit: James Wright)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Susan, Colin, Gowther, Fenodyree and Durathror then attempt an exhausted clamber up the slopes to the south-west of the stream. This hill is also un-named in the book, but maps reveal that it was Hammerton Knowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The view back from Hammerton Knowl across the approximate route taken by the travellers, looking north-east. Highmoor Brook lies within the trees in the low ground, above is Piggford Moor and beyond is the peak of Shuttlingslow (Credit: James Wright)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“Choking, they scrambled up the opposite hill. And that climb exhausted the last of their strength. It beat them mentally as well as physically, for it was a convex slope, and the skyline, the apparent top of the hill was always receding. It was never far away, but they could never reach it. Soon it was nearly beyond them to climb the stone walls that blocked their path, and when they did totter to the crest, and saw it was only a wide shelf, and that a further incline awaited them, all but Durathror collapsed as though their legs had been cut from under them<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garner, A., 1960 (1989 edition), The Weirdstone of Brisingamen<\/em>. William Collins \/ Lions. London. p210-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dissembling convex summit of Hammerton Knowl, looking south (Credit: James Wright)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The wide shelf of land on the summit of Hammerton Knowl (mid-ground, left) lies underneath the rise of Brown Hill (foreground, right), looking north-east (Credit: James Wright)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Assailed by their enemies on this shelf, Durathror made a stand and slew the two remaining hounds of the Morrigan whilst Fenodyree led the others east towards Brown Hill and the Bullstones<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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