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Broad Stand, Eskdale
Broad Stand
site name:-   Sca Fell
civil parish:-   Eskdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
coordinates:-   NY20960682 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY2006
10Km square:-   NY20

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 74 16) 
placename:-  Broad Stand
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

hearsay:-  
This is said to be the site of the first rock climb in the country, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, August 1802. Being on Sca Fell he wanted to get to Scafell Pikes, which means descending Broad Stand, After a series of small crags:-
"... but the Stretching of the muscle of my hands and arms, and the jolt of the Fall on my Feet, put my whole limbs in a Tremble, and I paused and looking down, saw that I had little else to encounter but a succession of these little Precipices- it was, in truth a Path that in very hard Rain is, no doubt, the channel of a most splendid Waterfall. So I began to suspect that I ought not to go on; but then unfortunately, though I could with ease drop down a smooth rock of 7 feet high, I could not climb it, so go on I must; and on I went."

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