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Scar Top Fall, North Yorkshire
Scar Top Falls
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   waterfall
coordinates:-   SD74467952
coordinates:-   SD74397959
1Km square:-   SD7479
10Km square:-   SD77
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
placename:-  Scar Top Fall
source data:-   Book, Ingleton, Bygone and Present, by Robert R and Margaret Balderston, published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, and by Edmndson and Co, 24 High Street, Skipton, Yorkshire, about 1890.
image BLD1P076, button  goto source
page 76:-  "..."
"Scar Top Fall."
"Close to Homeshaw Cave is a small stream which is usually nearly dry, but precipitates itself over a limestone rock in one leap of twenty-six feet, with another of four and a half just beyond. In wet weather this fall is remarkably fine, and the point selected by the stream for its passage over the scar is exceedingly peculiar, for no one would suspect that such a fine fall would be found in such a situation, if unacquainted with the natural configuration of the place."
evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
placename:-  Scartopfall
source data:-   Map, the hills in the Ingleton area, probably by Robert R Balderston, engraved by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, West Yorkshire, about 1890.
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BS1SD77P.jpg
"Scartopfall"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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