Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Proud Knott, Ennerdale and Kinniside | ||
| Proud Knott | ||
| site name:- | Pillar | |
| civil parish:- | Ennerdale and Kinniside (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| coordinates:- | NY183120 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1812 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY11 | |
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| story:- |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his notebook for 12 November 1799, says that:- |
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| "This man's [Jerome Bowman's] son, broke his neck by falling off a crag. Supposed to
have lain down and slept, but walked in his sleep and so came to the crag. This was
at Proud Knott on the mountain called Pillar up Ennerdale. His pike staff stuck midway
and stayed there till it rotted away." |
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