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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

evidence:-   old map:- OS County series (Yrk 64) 
placename:-  Dawson's Rock
source data:-   "Dawson's Rock"

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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