viewpoint, Force Bridge | ||
site name:- | Force Bridge | |
civil parish:- | Sedgwick (formerly Westmorland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | viewpoint | |
coordinates:- | SD50748684 | |
1Km square:- | SD5086 | |
10Km square:- | SD58 | |
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The views today are very poor; but not uninteresting. |
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BXD32.jpg View S. (taken 15.8.2012) BXD33.jpg View SN. (taken 15.8.2012) |
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evidence:- | descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by
William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in
London, 1778 to 1821. goto source Page 184:- "..." "... fall in with the course of the river [Kent] at Force-bridge," goto source Page 185:- "and from the crown of it have a very singular romantic view of the river both ways, working its passage in a narrow deep channel of rocks, hanging over it in a variety of forms, and streaming a thousand rills into the flood. The rocks in the bottom are strangely excavated into deep holes of various shapes, which, when the river is low, remain full of water, and from their depth are black as ink. ..." |
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person:- | author : West, Thomas |
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date:- | 1778 |
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period:- | 18th century, late | |
period:- | 1780s | |
item:- | guide book; Guide to the Lakes |
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