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Kemp Howe, Shap
Druidical Temple near Shap.
MR. URBAN,
NOTWITHSTANDING the alleged increase in good taste at the
present day, I find it is the intention of the projectors of
the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway to carry their line
through, and destroy, a most interesting remnant of
antiquity, the remains of a Druidical Temple situated in a
field the property of the earl of Lonsdale, on the road from
Kendal to Shap, and about 2 miles from the latter place. I
am surprised that the noble Earl should permit such
barbarity, with such influence as he possesses over the
Company.
The accompanying sketch (Plate II.) of this curious
monument, which will probably be in a very short time no
longer in existence, may be interesting to your readers. It
consists of 13 stones of Shap granite, the largest of which
is 7 or 8 feet high, placed on a circle about forty feet in
diameter.
Yours, &c.
DRUID.
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