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Sadgill Force, Longsleddale
Sadgill Force
site name:-   Sprint, River
locality:-   Sadgill
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   waterfall
coordinates:-   NY48320554
1Km square:-   NY4805
10Km square:-   NY40

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BTT13.jpg  Looking down the main fall.
(taken 4.11.2010)  
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BTT12.jpg  The water at the top of the main fall; 3.5 ins rain in the last 18 hours.
(taken 4.11.2010)  
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Wilson 1912
source data:-   Guide book, Longsleddale, by F M Wilson, published by T Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, 1912.
WILSON1.txt
"At Sadgill you will hear the mournful sound of the water as it dashes over the waterfall and among the rocks; it is about a mile up the glen, a little to the left of the Mardale track."
The sound comes from the fall here NOT the fall a couple of miles to the north. 

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BIZ02.jpg (taken 22.7.2004)  
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BIZ03.jpg (taken 22.7.2004)  
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BJH18.jpg (taken 15.12.2004)  
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