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| Dawson's Rock, Dent | ||
| Dawson's Rock | ||
| civil parish:- | Dent (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| civil parish:- | Garsdale (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone | |
| locality type:- | boundary stone (?) | |
| locality type:- | parish boundary mark (?) | |
| coordinates:- | SD78038935 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD7889 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD78 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County series (Yrk 64) placename:- Dawson's Rock |
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| source data:- | "Dawson's Rock" |
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| hearsay:- |
John Dawson, born 1734, in his teens, had duties of tending flocks on the hills. By
tradition he used to sit on this rock, watching the sheep, and worked out for himself
a system of mathaematics of the Conic Secions. |
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