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Yordas Gill
locality:-   Kingsdale
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   river
coordinates:-   SD70477913
1Km square:-   SD7079
10Km square:-   SD77

evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
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.
image WS21P250, button  goto source
Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century 
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"We now proceeded to examine the pits and chasms apparently caused by the water after it had has run through the cave [Yordas cave]. We ascended the hill a little higher, to view the gill above the cave: a stream of water flowed down it, which entering an aperture in the rock, we could see descend from steep to steep a considerable way. We made no doubt but it was the same stream which afterwards falls down through the roof of the chapter-house. ..."

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