The Hayfield Sheep Washes
A typical 'Sheep Wash' consisted of a 'Fold' (enclosure) and in
this case a dam across the river to increase the depth for total
immersion The one below was located at Carr Meadow below Tom Heys
Farm.
The river runs down from the moor via Hollingworth Clough.
This was a place of pilgrimage in the long summers of our childhood
in the days before TV.
The pool became the Carr Meadow Lido for a few months in the summer
to generations of Hayfield folk
On the first sunny day off we would go provisioned with treacle
or dripping buttes and a bottle of pop, for the picnic on the
prickly moorland grass, after an afternoon of building dams and
sinking battleships.
Photo courtesy Pam Gee
Booth Farm Sheep Wash
Booth Bridge can be seen in the background this 'Sheep Wash' was
rather more elaborate with a 'pond' to separate the contents from
the river which runs on the left of the wash
Photo courtesy Keith Wood
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