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| Fairy Steps, Beetham | ||
| Fairy Steps | ||
| site name:- | Whin Scar | |
| civil parish:- | Beetham (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | track | |
| locality type:- | corpse road | |
| coordinates:- | SD48737893 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4878 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 46 7) placename:- Fairy Steps |
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| 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. |
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| hearsay:- |
This is part of the corpse road from Arnside, which was once just a chapel of Beetham,
to the parish church. |
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| story:- |
The fairies here grant that your wish made at the foot of the steps will be granted,
on condition that you skip up the steps to the top of Whin Scar without touching the
sides of the narrow way. |
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