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footbridge, Borrowdale
Hallworth Memorial
site name:-   Greenup Gill
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   footbridge
locality type:-   bridge
locality type:-   memorial
coordinates:-   NY27421298
1Km square:-   NY2712
10Km square:-   NY21


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BOG03.jpg 
(taken 5.10.2007)  
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BOG04.jpg  Memorial plaque:-
"THIS BRIDGE WAS RE-ERECTED / IN MEMORY OF / GORDON HALLWORTH, AGED 21 YEARS, / A DEVOTED MEMBER OF THE / MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY MOUNTAINEERING CLUB / WHO DURING THE NIGHT FOLLOWING 7TH. JANUARY 1939 / DIED OF EXHAUSTION IN THIS DALE / NOTWITHSTANDING THE SELF-SACRIFICING ASSISTANCE / OF HIS TWO COMPANIONS AND THE STRENUOUS EFFORTS OF / A RELIEF PARTY OF THEIR FRIENDS. / MAY 1939." (taken 5.10.2007)  


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BOG05.jpg  View of river.
(taken 5.10.2007)  

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