Why a Booktrail?
2024: I am setting out on a pilgrimage through an ancient landscape. I will begin at my daughter’s grave.
The Ghost Lake
What you need to know before your trail
Paleolake Flixton is an extinct lake in North Yorkshire. Human occupation of the site dates back thousands of years to prehistoric times. Over the millennia, the vast lake disappeared, turning to wetland and peaty fields. Today all that is left of it is a watermark.
Wendy Pratt brings the reader on a pilgrimage around the ghost lake, to locations that have acted as journey markers in her own life. While traversing forests and fenland, she reflects on the process of finding belonging in nature as a woman who exists in a series of liminal spaces – as a working-class writer, an infertile woman in a fertile world and a bereaved mother in a society focused on children
Locations
Reset- England - Yorkshire
- A: Star Carr Lakes
- B: Brandsburton Fish farms
- C: Flixton
- D: Seamer
Travel Guide
Lake Flixton (Vale of Pickering)
Lake Flixton was a series of post-glacial lakes which formed in a chain in The Vale of Pickering at the end of the Holocene period.
There were stone-age communities in and around these lakes. Certain items have been found preserved in the peaty soil.
You can’t see the lake today – the wetland is very much still there, but it doesn’t look like a lake, rather a series of arable and pasture fields.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Ghost Lake
Destination: Lake Flixton (Vale of Pickering) , Yorkshire Author/guide: Wendy Pratt Departure Time: 2024
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