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placename:- Coopkarnal Hole
other name:- Coup Kernan Hole ?
other name:- Cow Carn Hole ?
other name:- Devil's Mustard Mill
site name:- Eden, River
locality:- Kirkby Stephen
parish Kirkby Stephen parish, once in Westmorland
county:- Cumbria
churn pot; gorge
coordinates:- NY77290745
10Km square:- NY70

1Km square NY7707

photograph

Coopkarnal Hole (?) -- Eden, River -- Kirkby Stephen -- Kirkby Stephen -- Cumbria / -- 8.8.2007
photograph

Coopkarnal Hole (?) -- Eden, River -- Kirkby Stephen -- Kirkby Stephen -- Cumbria / -- 8.8.2007

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 23 15)

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.
[Coopkarnal] Hole
The engraving is obscured by other map features.

placename:- Coopkarnal Hole
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

photographs
tiny photograph, 
button to large Coopkarnal Hole (?) -- Eden, River -- Kirkby Stephen -- Kirkby Stephen -- Cumbria / -- 13.1.2012
tiny photograph, 
button to large Coopkarnal Hole (?) -- Eden, River -- Kirkby Stephen -- Kirkby Stephen -- Cumbria / -- 13.1.2012

hearsay The churn pots in the brockram (breccia) of the river bed are given various names! and have some unreliable tales attached - one being about a cow that was tipped in and drowned. Part of the stream goes underground, and reemegres lower down. In its travels it rumbles; a Devil's mill.

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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