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This boggy, shallow valley is part of the source of the water channel for the Humbleton millpond visible in the distance NT9728 : Small dam above Humbleton. The water was led from the upper parts of a stream on the north-west side of Humbleton Hill, above Harehope Plantation. The 1860s OS map shows that the water visible in this photograph was the original millpond which supplied a watermill situated to the west of the village. A second millpond (seasonally dry in this photograph), this side of the current water body, appears on the 1890s map and has now replaced the original one on current maps.