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placename:-
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Dropping Well
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site name:-
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Levens Park
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parish
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Levens parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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spring; well
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coordinates:-
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SD50158572
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10Km square:-
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SD58
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1Km square |
SD5085 |
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old map:- |
OS County Series (Wmd 42 7)
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County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey,
Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to
1948. |
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placename:-
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Dropping Well
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well
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date:-
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1890=1899
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period:-
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19th century, late; 1890s
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old text:- |
Camden 1789 (Gough
Additions)
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Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the
Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by
William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. |
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Page 153:-
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At Levens, ... In the park ... is a spring called the
Dropping well, that petrifies moss, wood, leaves, &c.
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placename:-
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Dropping Well
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date:-
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1789
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s
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descriptive text:- |
West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
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Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West,
published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once
Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821. |
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goto source.
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Page 186:-
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... The side of the Kent is famous for petrifying springs,
that incrust vegetable bodies, such as moss, leaves of
trees, &c. There is one on the park [Levens Park],
called the Dropping-well.
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placename:-
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Dropping Well
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site name:-
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Levens Park
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date:-
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1778
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1770s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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