Update received:-)

I wrote to Bob who proved he was an all round good chap, as well as a brilliant songwriter and performer, by providing me with the information I asked for.

So, directly from the writer...

Many thanks for your message about The Gypsy. The place where the white lady walks into Oughtershaw Beck is not long after the road over to Gayle crosses the beck at Deepdale. There's a pool where Jacky Beresford (who's mentioned in the song) told me his uncle and father had once seen a white lady walk along the road and into the water.

I'm not sure that gypsy caravans would ever have tried to get over the Buttertubs pass, though they would have been able to find camping places near Keld. The song was intended as part love story and part celebration of my affection for the Dales landscape so some poetic licence was necessary. I imagined the couple spent their last night together in one of the fields just before you come into Keld.

I would still love to do the walk come spring and will probably look for the pool then if not before.

I'll keep you posted as and when I formulate more of a plan to the mad idea;-)

Cheers

DtG