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| Hazelslack Moss, Beetham | ||
| Hazelslack Moss | ||
| locality:- | Hazelslack | |
| locality:- | Arnside Moss | |
| civil parish:- | Beetham (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | marsh | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4679 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD47 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Helslack Mosses item:- ant; pismire; pismire fleet; sea maw |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto sourcePage 153:- "..." "... Helslack mosses are remarkable for the ant or pismire. About the middle of August, when they take wing, 1000 sea maws may be seen here catching these insects. The neighbours call them the pismire fleet. In these mosses are found, as in many others, large trees lying in all directions at five feet depth. ..." |
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