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Short Gill
runs into:-    Barbon Beck

civil parish:-   Barbon (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   boundary
locality type:-   parish boundary
locality type:-   county boundary (old) 
1Km square:-   SD6684 (etc) 
10Km square:-   SD68


photograph
BNH62.jpg  From Shortgill Bridge; dry.
(taken 2.3.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 44 11) 
placename:-  Short Gill
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.

evidence:-   probably old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5SD68SE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

places:-  
SD68178432 Crook of Short Gill (Barbon)
SD67058474 Short Gill Crag (Barbon)
SD67318462 Shortgill Waterfall (Barbon)
SD66878479 Shortgill Bridge (Barbon / Dent)
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