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Gale Fell, Loweswater
Gale Fell
civil parish:-   Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   fell
coordinates:-   NY138165 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1316
10Km square:-   NY11

hearsay:-  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notebook, 12 November 1799, mentions that:-
"A little beyond Scale Force a man, Jerome Bowman, slipped, broke his leg, and crawled on his hands and knees up and down hill three miles ..."
in the night, to his cottage. His wounds festered and he died soon after.

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