'Shap - Sleddale Hall'
Location : Shap
Map - Ordnance Survey - NY 540113
In the cult 1987 film 'Withnail and I' ‘Crow Cragg’, where Withnail and Marwood end up “on holiday by mistake”,
is Sleddale Hall, a derelict cottage, dating from at least 1802, alongside Wet Sleddale Reservoir, just west
from the A6, near Shap. The building is owned by United Utilities and should not be entered.
"London 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with
damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid
Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage.
But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be
somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen
interest in Marwood." Plot summary from IMDb.
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| Sleddale Hall (lower right) and Wet Sleddale reservoir. |
Aerial photos by Simon Ledingham.
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Page created 18 Feb 2007. Last changed 19 Feb 2007.
