Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Sour Milk Gill
	other name:-	Sourmilk Gill
	other name:-	Churn Milk Force
	locality:-	Easedale
	parish	Lakes parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		river
	coordinates:-	NY318087
	10Km square:-	NY30
	1Km square	NY3108
		Sour Milk Gill -- Easedale -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 22.5.2007
		Sour Milk Gill -- Easedale -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 22.5.2007
	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 51:-
		... the waterfall,- the foaming cataract, which is seen all over the valley, and is called Sour Milk Ghyll Force. ...
	placename:-	Sour Milk Ghyll Force
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	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 180:-
		WATERFALLS.
		No. : Names and Situations of Falls. : Counties : Feet in Height.
		11 : Sour Milk Force : Cumberland : 60
	placename:-	Sour Milk Force
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	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 34:-
		... Easdale Tarn, ... Its stream - from its frothy whiteness called Sour-milk Gill - is a striking object from the road. ...
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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.
	placename:-	Sourmilk Gill
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
		photographs
		Sour Milk Gill -- Easedale -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 22.5.2007
		Sour Milk Gill -- Easedale -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- After a dry Spring. -- 27.6.2010
		Sour Milk Gill -- Easedale -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 22.5.2007
		Sour Milk Gill -- Easedale -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 22.5.2007
		Sour Milk Gill -- Easedale -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- 14.3.2011
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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