Philip Eden wrote:
"Colin Blackburn" wrote:

The pictures were taken on Boltshope Park. This is a small area of
improved pasture in the Durham Dales, North Pennines, near Bolts Law. It
contains a handful of houses. The nearest settlement on a roadmap would be
Hunstanworth (near Blanchland) about a mile away though Townfield would
show on a 1:50K OS map.


Thanks for the background, Colin. Can you tell us who
runs the met station, and whether there was a particular
reason for its installation. It is, I believe, the highest met
recording site in the UK in a populated area.

The station is run by my neighbour. He does it as a part time job on top
of whatever else he does. I'm not sure of the history but I'll ask him
if anyone is interested. He has lived up here for about 14 years, long
before we moved up here, I don't know if the station existed before then.

As far as I am aware the figures are used for the determination of cold
weather payments in the region---if so then that's probably very good
for the local pensioners as it can be quite balmy down in Blanchland
while it's parky up our way. He has also mentioned confirming local
conditions to the RAF when they think their pilots are making excuses
(usually about the low cloud.)

Colin