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ALERT ONLY. SEPTEMBER 29th SUN. 16.46hrs. BULL POT OF THE WITCHES, CASTERTON, CUMBRIA. ALERT No 6 of 2024

A caller, living over 200 miles away, where there had been heavy rain and flooding, was unable to phone his son (35) who had intended exploring Bull Pot of the Witches. He therefore contacted Cumbria Police, concerned about his son’s safety, some three hours earlier than their agreed ‘call-out time’. He was unaware that there had been little or no rain in the Casterton area that day and that only…