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) 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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