Blubberhouses

Blubberhouses is a small village and civil parish in the Washburn Valley in North Yorkshire, England.

Westhouse opened in the 1790s to process flax, but closed in 1877 and the stone from the mill was used in the construction of the dam wall of Fewston Reservoir.

The single point for the King of the Mountains competition was claimed by Frenchman, Cyril Lemoine of Cofidis.

[16] Blubberhouses is used as a key setting for local composer Andy Tillison's composition Le Sacre Du Travail,[17] a five movement electric sinfonia recorded by the progressive rock ensemble The Tangent.

The work is, according to the CD sleeve notes, loosely based around Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring).

[18] A short story in the CD sleeve describes the journey of a man travelling to work through the village in the small hours of the morning.