Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Sadgill to Stile End
	other name:-	Stile End to Sadgill
	parish	Longsleddale parish, once in Westmorland
	parish	Kentmere parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Westmorland
		track; byway; drove road
	10Km square:-	NY40
	1Km square	NY4805 & NY4804 & NY4704 & NY4604 & NY4605
	source:-	OS 1881-82 New Series (outline edition)
		Maps, parts of Westmorland, Cumberland, etc now Cumbria, New Series 1 inch maps of England, published by the Ordnance Survey, London, 1881-82; sheets 7, 11, 12, 16..19, 22..25, 28..31, 37..40, 47..50, 58.
	date:-	1881=1882
	period:-	19th century, late; 1880s
	source:-	Prior 1865
		Page 7:-
		... The road keeps ... on to the moor, from which it ascends by an easy slope to the summit of the Pass, keeping a stream which flows in front of the farm on its right until just below the top. Here it crosses the stream, goes through a gate, and then crosses the summit ridge, which is very narrow, to the side of the stream descending into Long Sleddale. Follow this until you reach another gate, with a second (wicket) gate, into a field just below it on the right. Here the road turns away from the Sleddale stream, going through the upper of these two gates; and then continuing without difficulty, with a wall on its right throughout, to the houses in the village. Opposite to these, a bridge is seen, on crossing which you are then in the main road up the valley. ...
		Page 50:-
		... a bridge is reached, opposite the first houses. Cross here, and go through a gate, up a slight ascent, and then take the left-hand turn, through another gate, leading up to a farm-house on that side of the road. Do not enter the farm buildings, but skirt around on the right of them, which brings you into a shady lane slanting up the hill behind the farm. At the end of this lane,a stone fence continues on your left, which is to be closely kept to, avoiding a
		Page 52:-
		somewhat attractive road which zigzags up the rising ground on the right, just above a stone barn. Following close by the wall, you reach a gate on the other side of which is the ravine of a stream descending into Sleddale from the fells on your right. On going through this gate, the road changes its direction, and keeps up by the stream, which is on its left-hand to the summit-level of the pass, - a mere neck of land. Here you go through another gate, and join a small stream descending on the Kentmere side of the mountain.
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	date:-	1865
	period:-	19th century, late; 1860s
	records:-	Curwen 1926
		Curwen, John F
		1717 May 3 : The inhabitants of Long Sleddale, Langdale, Grasmere, Rydal and Loughrigg, Ambleside, Troutbeck, Kentmere and several other townships in the Barony of Kendall, show that the great road and public highway between Hawksyde, Ambleside, Shap, Penrith and Appleby, very much used by travellers, drovers and others having occasion frequently to pass and repass to and from the said markets with cattle and other goods, in which public highway there is a water or rivulet called Sadgill which by the violent and sudden rain there is often raised and overflows its banks so that no passenger dare venture to cross the same and many times travellers are forced to stay two or three days before they dare to venture to cross and are often in danger with their cattle of being lost in crossing the said water to the great prejudice of trade, and pray that a bridge may be erected over the same; order that the Chief Constable view the same and report the cost of a bridge on 31 May next. K. Order Book, 1696-1724.
	locality:-	Sadgill
	date:-	1717
	period:-	18th century, early; 1710s
		photographs
		Sadgill to Stile End -- Longsleddale and Kentmere -- Westmorland / -- Entrance to Low Sadgill:- -- 19.3.2007
		Sadgill to Stile End -- Longsleddale and Kentmere -- Westmorland / -- By the barn adjoining Low Sadgill. -- NY48230567 (at) -- 5.2004
	route concatenation private
	mapping:-	route, Lsl5.1route, Lsl5.2route, Lsl5.3
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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