Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Sour Milk Gill
	parish	Buttermere parish, once in Cumberland
	parish	Loweswater parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		river
	coordinates:-	NY1615
	10Km square:-	NY11
	1Km square	NY1615
		Sour Milk Gill -- Buttermere and Loweswater -- Cumbria / -- NY17231629 (at) -- 1.1.2011
		Sour Milk Gill -- Buttermere and Loweswater -- Cumbria / -- From below. -- 1.1.2011
	source:-	Martineau 1855
		Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71.
		Page 133:-
		[the torrent] flowing down the steep into the lake [Buttermere] is called (as others in the district are) Sourmilk Ghyll; and it issues from Bleaberry, or Burtness Tarn, on the side of Red Pike. ...
	placename:-	Sourmilk Ghyll
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Sourmilk Force
		two lines across a stream, waterfall
	placename:-	Sourmilk Force
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 179:-
		WATERFALLS.
	placename:-	Sour Milk Force
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards.
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		Page 46:-
		SOUR-MILK GILL is a name applied to some mountain torrents, on account of their frothy whiteness resembling Butter-milk from the churn. We have Sour-milk Gill near Buttermere, Sour-milk Gill in Grasmere, and Sour-milk Gill near the Black-lead Mine in Borrowdale.
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	old map:-	West 1784 map
		A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821.
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		river
	county:-	Cumberland
	old map:-	Crosthwaite 1783-94 (But/Cru/Low)
		Series of maps, An Accurate Map of the Matchless Lake of Derwent, of the Grand Lake of Windermere, of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, of Broadwater or Bassenthwaite Lake, of Coniston Lake, of Buttermere, Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, and Pocklington's Island, by Peter Crosthwaite, Kendal, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1783 to 1794.
		Sour Milk Gill
	placename:-	Sour Milk Gill
		river
	date:-	1783=1794
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s; 1790s
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
		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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		Page 131:-
		... large hollow craters scooped in their bosoms, once the seeming seats of raging liquid fire, though at present overflowing with the purest water, that foams down the craggy brows; ...
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		Page 135:-
		in whose bosom it is formed, appears to have been the focus of a volcano, in some distant period of time, when the cones were produced by explosion. At present it is the reservoir of water, that feeds the roaring cataract you see in the descent to Buttermere. Here all is barrenness, solitude, and silence, only interrupted by the murmurs of a rill, that runs unseen in the bottom of a deep dell. ...
	date:-	1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1770s
	old map:-	Bowen and Kitchin 1760
		New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin, published by T Bowles, John Bowles and Son, Robert Sayer, and John Tinney, 1760; published 1760-87.
		wiggly line from Bleaberry Tarn
	date:-	1760
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s
	old print:-	Nelson 1859
		Guide book, in the Nelson's Handbooks for Tourists series, The English Lakes, published by T Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, London, 1859.
		Print, engraving, Buttermere from near the Fish Inn, drawn by Keeley Halswelle, Edinburgh, published by T Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, London, and Edinburgh and New York, United States, 1859.
		Frontispiece to a guide book, The English Lakes.
		printed at bottom:-
		BUTTERMERE FROM NEAR THE FISH INN.
	date:-	1859
	period:-	19th century, late
		photographs
		Sour Milk Gill -- Buttermere and Loweswater -- Cumbria / -- Running out of Bleaberry Tarn, -- NY16661548 (at) -- 1.1.2011
		Sour Milk Gill -- Buttermere and Loweswater -- Cumbria / -- NY169158 (about) -- 1.1.2011
		Sour Milk Gill -- Buttermere and Loweswater -- Cumbria / -- NY169158 (about) -- 1.1.2011
		Sour Milk Gill -- Buttermere and Loweswater -- Cumbria / -- NY17231629 (at) -- 1.1.2011
		Sour Milk Gill -- Buttermere and Loweswater -- Cumbria / -- From across the lake. -- 7.11.2005
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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