Can anybody help

I am wondering if there had been any weather stations or rainfall recording
stations in my area of Brampton, Cumbria prior to me starting in 1999.

There used to be a few water treatment works nearby and they sometimes used
to record the rainfall, can anyone remembering any stations around here or
has anyone any old books/magazines/col reports etc

many thanks
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Paul Crabtree
Brampton, Cumbria. 117m A.S.L.
www.bramptonweather.co.uk



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Paul Crabtree writes:
Can anybody help

I am wondering if there had been any weather stations or rainfall recording
stations in my area of Brampton, Cumbria prior to me starting in 1999.

I was about to point you at RAF Brampton, but unfortunately a quick
websearch revealed that it's in Cambridgeshire. I thought I'd mention it
in case anybody else makes the same incorrect assumption as me.
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John Hall

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Oscar Wilde

Paul Crabtree wrote:
Can anybody help

I am wondering if there had been any weather stations or rainfall recording
stations in my area of Brampton, Cumbria prior to me starting in 1999.

There used to be a few water treatment works nearby and they sometimes used
to record the rainfall, can anyone remembering any stations around here or
has anyone any old books/magazines/col reports etc

Three suggestions:

1. The COL Directory contains details of pretty well every station
that's ever contributed to COL: available on CD for about £6 from COL
Editor. You might find some local COL contacts have access to data from
other stations in their area, too - worth contacting.

2. If you have, or can obtain access to, volumes of British Rainfall or
Monthly Weather Report, you'll find published data from all available
stations in there. BR ceased in 1991, MWR in 1993 :-(

3. Try the Met Office archives; they're always helpful and friendly,
explain what you're after and where you are and they'll probably be
help find you the current and most recent stations in your area from
Met Office computerised listings of rainfall and climat stations. Best
of all would be to make a special trip to Exeter and look up all the
old records. The rainfall records are very easy to obtain, handwritten
monthly and annual totals for all stations are bound in decadal volumes
by area back to the 1860s. Photocopies 10p per sheet gets you 10 years
rainfall data - a bargain. (Only updated to about 1985, because
everything is now on computer archives and therefore chargeable ... )

Hope this helps

Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

Stephen Burt wrote:
Paul Crabtree wrote:
The rainfall records are very easy to obtain, handwritten
monthly and annual totals for all stations are bound in decadal volumes
by area back to the 1860s. Photocopies 10p per sheet gets you 10 years
rainfall data - a bargain. (Only updated to about 1985, because
everything is now on computer archives and therefore chargeable ... )

How much and how do you access the computer archives?

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"Paul Crabtree" wrote in message
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Can anybody help

I am wondering if there had been any weather stations or rainfall
recording stations in my area of Brampton, Cumbria prior to me starting in
1999.

There used to be a few water treatment works nearby and they sometimes
used to record the rainfall, can anyone remembering any stations around
here or has anyone any old books/magazines/col reports etc

Paul, unfortunately most of my British Rainfalls are still packed up in
boxes following my move, but I've dug out one or two:

In 1966 there were rain-gauges at
Renwick, New Water, Geltsdale, Old Water, Castle Carrock, Broadfield
House, Carlisle, Carlisle Sewage Works, Carlisle Cemetery and Ashycroft

In 1958:
Renwick, Old Water, New Water, Geltsdale, Castle Carrock, Carlisle
Sewage Works, Spital Cemetery (same as above?), Bewcastle

In 1949
Renwick, Wreay Vicarage, Geltsdale, Spital Cemetery, Carlisle Sewage
Works, Carlisle/Denton Holme, Carlisle/Rose Hill, Bewcastle, and
Brampton Secondary School

In 1920
Renwick, Wreay Vicarage, Geltsdale, Spital Cemetery, Carlisle/
Denton Holme, Carlisle/Scaleby Hall, Penton

HTH
Philip