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| Smuggler's Hut, Great Gable | ||
| Smuggler's Hut | ||
| site name:- | Gable Crag | |
| site name:- | Great Gable | |
| civil parish:- | Ennerdale and Kinniside (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | building/s (ruin) | |
| coordinates:- | NY211104 (rough;y) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2110 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
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| hearsay:- |
The hut is now a ruin but would have been a good place to hide illicitly distilled
whisky, stolen black lead, and any other smuggle being transported on the Moses' Trod
route. Moses Rigg is said to have had a hideaway up here somewhere. |
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| In 1890, W P Heskett-Smith climbing with friends, found this hut, which they named
the Smuggler's Shelter, on a wide ledge below the summit of Great Gable. |
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