Cam Peak: does this hill look natural to you?

[lostinstrangeworld]

Here is a picture of a place called "Cam Peak" near a town called Dursley in the UK, where I grew up.

I remember writing a little about it whilst doing a project on the town's history for school when I was about 11 or 12...and according to the book at the time nobody knows quite how it got there or if it was formed naturally. There used to be a nickname for it in old times...."the devil's wheelbarrow"....lol....a story was invented that the devil must have got a load of earth piled up in a giant wheelbarrow and just plonked it there!

But I'm wondering about other explanations.

I tried finding out more about Cam Peak online and whether anybody at all had done any research....but I couldn't find anything.

It just looks so similar to ancient burial grounds I can't help but wonder....then there is the name of the place...Durs-ley.....leylines? Tyndale monument in nearby Wotton-Under_Edge is probably an indicator of leylines running across the land and I'm sure it connects to Dursley and Uley. (JK Rowling also used the name for Harry Potter's surname....synchro....relevant?) Hmm.....

My mum told me she heard there are a lot of Freemasons living around the area nearby.......

If I find a secret entrance to this funny looking mound of mud....I'll let you know.....LOL.

[fff_666]

Originally Posted by lostinstrangeworld

Here is a picture of a place called "Cam Peak" near a town called Dursley in the UK, where I grew up.

I remember writing a little about it whilst doing a project on the town's history for school when I was about 11 or 12...and according to the book at the time nobody knows quite how it got there or if it was formed naturally. There used to be a nickname for it in old times...."the devil's wheelbarrow"....lol....a story was invented that the devil must have got a load of earth piled up in a giant wheelbarrow and just plonked it there!

But I'm wondering about other explanations.

I tried finding out more about Cam Peak online and whether anybody at all had done any research....but I couldn't find anything.

It just looks so similar to ancient burial grounds I can't help but wonder....then there is the name of the place...Durs-ley.....leylines? Tyndale monument in nearby Wotton-Under_Edge is probably an indicator of leylines running across the land and I'm sure it connects to Dursley and Uley. (JK Rowling also used the name for Harry Potter's surname....synchro....relevant?) Hmm.....

My mum told me she heard there are a lot of Freemasons living around the area nearby.......

If I find a secret entrance to this funny looking mound of mud....I'll let you know.....LOL.

I dunno bout it being natural or not, but id say there might be an entrance or a cave in one of those houses along the side

[astrochicken]

Originally Posted by lostinstrangeworld

If I find a secret entrance to this funny looking mound of mud....I'll let you know.....LOL.

Damn right you will.. i'll be over on the next plane with a torch.

[rhydra]

Cam Peak was originally called Camley pike, this article may be of some interest.
http://archive.gazetteseries.co.uk/2002/12/6/10415.html

MYSTERY surrounds an oil painting with a connection to scenes by Wotton-under-Edge artist Rob Collins.

American chef Douglas Hinton, now living in Wotton, saw the intriguing picture in a collection of early American and European paintings in New York, belonging to Luman Reed.

It was painted in 1833 by a Scottish artist, Andrew Richardson.

It shows a group of picnickers and a vast flat landscape fading away into the distance.

The title is : 'View from Frocester Hill, Gloucestershire, England'.

Rob Collins' local views calendar, on sale at the moment, includes two views from Frocester Hill - one facing south and one facing west.

Mr Hinton said: "While in America, we were delighted to see a reminder of home." But Mr Hinton was also surprised by the picture - it has a lake with small sailing boats in the foreground.

There is certainly no lake in the view from Frocester today.

Mr Collins said: "There is the long line of the Severn in the distance but no lake anywhere."

A tourist guidebook from the 1830s is quoted in the book which accompanies the exhibition: "Frocester...is a small village, situated at the bottom of a high hill, which screens it on the east...its summit commands a very beautiful prospect.

"On the left is Camley Pike, of a volcanic shape, and the bold projecting head of Stinchcombe; in the foreground, two expanded reaches of the Severn."

Mr Collins suggested: "Perhaps the lake is actually these 'expanded reaches'."

He added: "I have looked on the internet at a map from the 1880s and could see no lake."

A simple explanation could be that the 19th century painting has been wrongly titled.

Mr Collins said: "Can anyone help? Was there a lake near Frocester Hill in the early 1800s?"

His calendar for 2003, reproducing oil paintings of local views, is available from The Cotswold Bookroom, Wotton, That New Shop, Dursley, North Nibley Village Shop and Kayles newsagent, Cam.

The images are on display in the former Pictons greengrocers, Long Street, Wotton, and Gerards dry cleaners, Parsonage Street, Dursley.

[lostinstrangeworld]

Wow, brilliant find.

That's strange because as a kid I used to dream about going up on Stinchcombe hill (where I walked my dogs regularly) and finding the sea on the other side...or maybe it was a lake....I also use to imagine that the farmings fields between my house and the woods once held a lake......strange!

[lostinstrangeworld]

Misty Severn View 19-11-05 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Misty Severn View 19-11-05 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

[scatlond]

Originally Posted by lostinstrangeworld

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosie55/348468758/

Looks like a lake.

[decode reality]

Enjoy your exploration, Emily and if you DO find a secret entrance, just keep the last scene of 'They Live' in mind: