Gents Mag 1844 part 2 p.381

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1844 part 2 p.381
Kemp Howe   Shap
	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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