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placename:-
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Skelghyll
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parish
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Lakes parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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area
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coordinates:-
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NY3902
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10Km square:-
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NY30
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1Km square |
NY3902 |
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descriptive text:- |
Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
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Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William
Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839;
published 1839-52. |
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Page 34:-
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WANSFELL AND SKELGILL.
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Mountain excursions of moderate elevation, and almost
without fatigue, may be made to Skelgill and Wansfell Pike,
whence the localities of Ambleside are displayed as on a
map, and thus the stranger is enabled to form a better idea
of his position with regard to the mighty masses around him.
Windermere, also, is seen in a new point of view.
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placename:-
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Skelgill
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date:-
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1839
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1830s
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descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
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This is presumably the Coniston Limestone Series?
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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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goto source.
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Page 158:-
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The THIRD division - forming only inferior elevations -
commences with a bed of dark-blue or blackish transition
limestone, containing here and there a few shells and
madrepores, and alternating with a slaty rock of the same
colour; the different layers of each being in some places
several feet, in others only a few inches in thickness. This
limestone crosses the river Duddon near Broughton; passing
Broughton Mills it runs in a north-east direction through
Torver, by the foot of the Old Man mountain, and appears
near Low Yewdale and Yew Tree. Here it makes a considerable
slip to the eastward, after which it ranges past the Tarns
upon the hills above Borwick Ground; and stretching through
Skelwith, it crosses the head of Windermere near Low Wood
Inn. Then passing above Dovenest and Skelgill, it traverses
the vales of Troutbeck, Kentmere, and Long Sleddale;
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date:-
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1823
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1820s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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