River Crake
The River Crake at the Bouthrey Bridge
The Crake drains the Coniston Water at the southern end and flows into the River Leven at Greenodd shortly before its confluence with the Morecambe Bay.
In the 19th century a number of factories moved to the river, who used the water to power machines. So there was a cotton mill and an iron foundry. Until the 1970s there was in Spark Bridge a Drechselerei that produced wooden spindles for spinning mills in Lancashire. Today there are no remains of the plants on the river more.
The River Crake is known that salmon live in it.