Gents Mag 1843 part 2 p.573

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1843 part 2 p.573 [extra]ordinary; for, instead of being in the village, which is about a quarter of a mile distant from the river Eden, on a high rising ground, it is actually within a few yards of the water's edge, and the rectory, a little westward of the church, is on still lower ground. Whenever, therefore, there is a flood, or the "beck is out," as the local term has it, a case often occurring suddenly, owing to the rapid fall of water from the fells in rainy weather, the church is sometimes, and the rectory generally, flooded. Thus many have been the unlucky inmates, who have, on walking quietly down stairs on a dark morning, found themselves suddenly in two or three feet depth of water. The late rector was one of these.
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