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Cautley Spout, Sedbergh
Cautley Spout
locality:-   Cautley
locality:-   Howgill Fells
civil parish:-   Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   waterfall
coordinates:-   SD68129754 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD6897
10Km square:-   SD69

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BYZ95.jpg (taken 6.8.2013)  
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BYZ96.jpg (taken 6.8.2013)  
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BOX98.jpg  From down in the valley.
(taken 31.3.2008)  
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BTV56.jpg  In snow.
(taken 24.12.2010)  
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BLQ80.jpg (taken 4.3.2006)  
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Codley Spout
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Water Fall / Codley Spout"
waterfall 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Cautley Spout
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT80P189, button  goto source
Page 189:-  "..."
"CAUTLEY SPOUT.- This place, though not properly belonging to Lonsdale, is too important a feature of the Howgill Fells to be omitted. It consists of three cascades; the highest of which takes a clear leap of 400 feet and upwards. The whole height of the cascade, from the spout to the foot of the lower fall, has been measured as 860 feet. The south side of the fall is crowned by tremendous precipices and shelves of loose stone, called 'Cautley Screes.' The north side is particularly abrupt, and requires a firm foot, and a good head, to get either up or down."
evidence:-   old print:- Braithwaite 1922
placename:-  Cautley Waterfall
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Cautley Fells and Waterfall, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, published by J W Braithwaite and Sons, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, 1922.
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Included in a guide book, Kirkby Stephen, 4th edn 1922. 
printed at bottom:-  "CAUTLEY FELLS AND WATERFALL, 8 MILES FROM KIRKBY STEPHEN."
item:-  private collection : 220.4
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- Thompson 1894
placename:-  Cautley Spout
source data:-   Print, engraving, Cautley Spout, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, published by Richard Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1894.
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On p.78 of An Illustrated Guide to Sedbergh, Garsdale, and Dent, by W Thompson. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1612.B17
Image © see bottom of page

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BYZ94.jpg (taken 6.8.2013)  
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BOY26.jpg  At the top.
(taken 31.3.2008)  
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BOY02.jpg (taken 31.3.2008)  
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BOY04.jpg (taken 31.3.2008)  
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BOY03.jpg (taken 31.3.2008)  
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BOY05.jpg  Looking over the spout.
(taken 31.3.2008)  
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