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placename:- Meg Gill
other name:- Meg's Gill
site name:- Lang Howe
locality:- Chapel Stile
parish Lakes parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
river
coordinates:- NY3206
10Km square:- NY30

1Km square NY3206

photograph

Meg Gill -- Lang Howe -- Chapel Stile -- Lakes -- Cumbria / -- NY32350584 (about) -- 15.2.2012

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.
Plate, opposite p.64:-
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Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen a little beyond Rydal Mount, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
MOUNTAINS SEEN A LITTLE BEYOND RYDAL MOUNT.
L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr.
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-
1 Loughrigg Fell, 2 Lingmoor, 3 Pike of Bliscow, 4 Crinkle Crags, 5 Meg's Gill Head, 6 Silver How, 7 Pike of Stickle, 8 Harrison Stickle, 9 Pavey Ark

placename:- Meg's Gill
person:- artist : Aspland, T L
person:- engraver : Banks, W
person:- publisher : Garnett, John
date:- 1855
period:- 19th century, late; 1850s

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 8)

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.

placename:- Megs Gill
river
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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