Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Gale Fell | |
| parish |
Loweswater parish, once in
Cumberland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| hill; fell | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY138165 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY11
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| 1Km square | NY1316 | |
| hearsay |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notebook, 12 November 1799,
mentions that:-
A little beyonmd Scale Force a man, Jerome Bowman, slipped, broke his leg, and crawled on his hands and knees up and down hill three miles ... in the night, to his cottage. His wounds festered and he died soon after. | |
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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