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Forge Cottage, Little Langdale
Forge Cottage
locality:-   Little Langdale
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY32240307
1Km square:-   NY3203
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
BNI88.jpg (taken 14.3.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 12) 
placename:-  Forge Cottage
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.

story:-  
It is said: that Betty Yewdale lived here. Following a funeral in Coniston her husband went to toast the memory of the deceased at the Black Bull. He hadn't returned by morning, so Betty fetched him from the inn with the help of a hazel switch, well administered.

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