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| Piers Gill | ||
| civil parish:- | Eskdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | river | |
| locality type:- | valley | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2108 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY20 | |
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 CAZ06.jpg On the front of Lingmell. (taken 23.6.2014)  BQO20.jpg (taken 12.5.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bogg 1898 placename:- Piers Ghyll item:- climbing |
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| source data:- | Photograph, halftone print, In Piers Ghyll, or Piers Gill, Eskdale, Cumberland, by
F Leach, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street,
Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898. click to enlargeBGG154.jpg Included on p.165 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. item:- JandMN : 231.54 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | outline view:- Jenkinson 1875 placename:- Piers Gill |
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| source data:- | Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Scawfell Pike, Cumberland,
by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London,
1875. click to enlargeJk01E3.jpg "... Piers Gill ..." item:- JandMN : 28.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Cornelius Crump, a walker from London, fell in the ravine here and lay 20 days here
before he was rescued, 1921. |
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| hearsay:- |
A small cloud called the Borrowdale Sop sometimes appears near Piers Ghyll at the
head of Borrowdale. If it floats off down the valley towards the Vale of St John it
will be fine; if it goes towards Langdale it will rain. |
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