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Swancoote Pool as mentioned in BB's wonderful little book "Confessions of a Carp Fisher". Chapter V "The Obsession Grows".

I know the pool was in Warwickshire somewhere, as BB describes it in his book "it was hidden away in leafy country some miles from the nearest road”.

The pool may be long gone and a motorway or housing estate may now stand in its place but I would love to find out where it was, or perhaps it is still there, under a different name.

The investigation continues…
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Around two thirds of the way through "Drop me a line" and there have been a few references to Swancoote. Maurice asks if BB has had any luck from the surface there.

Come on "Super Sluith's", somebody has to solve this!!!! :thumb:
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There is a poem about Swancoote pool but it is not available on amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Swancoote-David ... B0007HLYGU nor anywhere it seems :roll:
You can view it if you subscribe to Harper's magazine http://harpers.org/archive/1953/07/0006426
as it was published in that magazine in 1952 but I'm not a subscriber and I doubt it'll shed much light anyway.
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The Sweetcorn Kid wrote:Around two thirds of the way through "Drop me a line" and there have been a few references to Swancoote. Maurice asks if BB has had any luck from the surface there.

Come on "Super Sluith's", somebody has to solve this!!!! :thumb:
I've not got to that part of the book yet SK, sounds interesting.
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Well after reading the chapter again in Confessions the pool was some 20 miles from BB's home in Warwickshire, does anyone know whereabouts in Warwickshire BB lived. This should narrow it down somewhat.
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Snape wrote:There is a poem about Swancoote pool but it is not available on amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Swancoote-David ... B0007HLYGU nor anywhere it seems :roll:
You can view it if you subscribe to Harper's magazine http://harpers.org/archive/1953/07/0006426
as it was published in that magazine in 1952 but I'm not a subscriber and I doubt it'll shed much light anyway.
I dont think this is the same Swancoote Pool's Snape as David Thompson Watson McCord was an American Poet. That's unless I have the wrong David.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCord#Essays
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There is a Swancote in Shropshire not a million miles away -

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?rlz=1C1GG ... CB0Q8gEwAA

There are a number of lakes nearby?
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Thanks Luke I have a snoop round Google Earth.
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Mark wrote:Thanks Luke I have a snoop round Google Earth.
I suspect, strongly, that's its real name was not/isn't Swancoote Pool..

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I'm sure it wasn't the real name.
Is it definitely talking about his home in Warks and not Northants.
I know where he lived in Northants.
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