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Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.517

old bridge. Shap Grange, which belonged to it, stands in rich pastures, a mile to the East, and has vestiges of a considerable village around it. Speed, after mentioning this Abbey, adds, 'where there is a fountain or spring which ebbs and flows many times in a day;' it is called Skuskill well, and at present throws out a copious, but apparently a regular flowing stream.
The Premonstratenses, or Monks of Premonstre, vulgarly called White Canons, had 27 Monasteries in England.
GEORGE HALL.
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