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Page 141:-
[de]dicated it to God and St. Mary Magdalene, endowing it
for canons of the Premonstratensian order. Their revenues,
at the dissolution, were £154 17s. 7d. The Abbey
church appears to have been a large building. The great
tower is the only part now standing, but extensive
foundations of buildings were discovered in 1825, on the
south side of the Abbey, near which the pillar of an ancient
bridge is till to be seen in the midst of the river.
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Karl Lofts
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Near the town of Shap is a stupendous monument, called Karl
Lofts, composed of two lines of huge unhewn masses of
granite, enclosing an area of half-a-mile in length, and
from twenty to thirty yards in breadth, having at its south
end a circle of similar stones, eighteen feet in diameter,
and near the north end a square plot of stones, partly
covered with earth, above which, on Skellaw Hill, is a small
tumulus. The stones in each line are some of them three or
four yards in diameter; but many of them have been blasted
and carried away for the erection of buildings in the
parish.
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Shap
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The town of Shap, standing on the high road, has excellent
inns; and not far from it, the Earl of Lonsdale has erected
a commodious and elegant hotel, for the accommodation of
visitors to the Wells, which have lately become a place of
genteel resort. The high road, in return, passes through
Thrimby and the pleasant village of Hackthorpe, to Penrith.
From Penrith the stranger can proceed by two
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-- "Karl Lofts" -- Karl Lofts
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-- (Kemp Howe, Shap)
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-- "Shap Abbey" -- Shap Abbey
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-- Shap Wells Hotel
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-- "Shap" -- Shap
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-- Spa Well
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-- (tumulus, Skellaw Hill)
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