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placename:-
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Low Well
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locality:-
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Winskill
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parish
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Hunsonby parish, once in
Cumberland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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coordinates:-
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NY57723470
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10Km square:-
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NY53
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1Km square |
NY5734 |
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old photograph:- |
Bogg 1898
-- probably relevant
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Photograph, halftone print, At the Well, probably Low
Well, near Winskill, Hunsonby, Cumberland, by Edmund Bogg,
published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles,
Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
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Included on p.67 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund
Bogg. The text says that the well served Langwathby, the
girls using a footpath crossing the Briggle Beck nearby.
BUT:-
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Now the smiling faces, and troops of village girls with hoop
and pail, will soon cease to congregate at this spot, for
this is an age of waterworks and reservoirs, and the small
village of Winskill is to have constant supply of water
brought to their doors and the old-time trysting place will
be a thing of the past. But as one elderly native remarked
to the writer: "When we du hev't watter brow't et toun, we
sall still gan dune to fetch et frae t'well; hisen't it a
vast mure nataral te ev t'watter pure hout et grund, than te
hev it out et lead pipes." ...
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date:-
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1898
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period:-
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19th century, late; 1890s
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008
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