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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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