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| Low Well, Winskill | ||
| runs into:- |  Briggle Beck (2) |
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| Low Well | ||
| locality:- | Winskill | |
| civil parish:- | Hunsonby (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | spring | |
| coordinates:- | NY57723470 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5734 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY53 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 50 7) placename:- Low Well |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | probably old photograph:- Bogg 1898 |
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| source data:- | Photograph, halftone print, At the Well, probably Low Well, near Winskill, Hunsonby,
Cumberland, by Edmund Bogg, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James
Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898. click to enlargeBGG122.jpg Included on p.67 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. The text says that the well served Langwathby, the girls using a footpath crossing the Briggle Beck nearby. BUT:- "Now the smiling faces, and troops of village girls with hoop and pail, will soon cease to congregate at this spot, for this is an age of waterworks and reservoirs, and the small village of Winskill is to have constant supply of water brought to their doors and the old-time trysting place will be a thing of the past. But as one elderly native remarked to the writer: "When we du hev't watter brow't et toun, we sall still gan dune to fetch et frae t'well; hisen't it a vast mure nataral te ev t'watter pure hout et grund, than te hev it out et lead pipes." ..." item:- JandMN : 231.22 Image © see bottom of page |
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