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Re: Legend of the Bowder stone by Sunny100 on Monday, 01 July 2019

The Bowder Stone, a tourist attraction in the Lake District, gets a new steel ladder in place of the old wooden one, which had started to rot away. This new ladder should last for a long time. Here's a BBC link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-46552224 A huge rock dubbed "one of the strangest" Lake District attractions is getting an upgrade.

Visitors to the Bowder Stone, near Keswick, can climb atop the boulder via a wooden ladder installed in the 1980s. But the set of steps has "reached the end of its lifespan", said the National Trust, which has applied for permission to install a metal replacement. The rock is said to be the height of six people and is thought to weigh 1,253 tonnes. It found popularity as a tourist attraction during the Victorian era, when people flocked to marvel at the geological wonder.

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