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Gale Sike
runs into:-    Castlethwaite Gill

civil parish:-   Mallerstang (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY7902 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY70


photograph
CGW80.jpg  waterfall?
(taken 8.11.2017)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 30 15) 
placename:-  Gale Sike
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.

evidence:-   perhaps old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
image
SP14NY70.jpg
double line, into the Eden 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
Image © see bottom of page

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