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waterfall, Fisherplace Gill
site name:-   Fisherplace Gill
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   waterfall
coordinates:-   NY321183 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3218
10Km square:-   NY31

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
image CL13P117, button  goto source
Page 117:-  "... above Brotto, (see plate IX.) is a curious channel in a rock, through which the water flows down a very steep descent; this channel is five or six yards deep, and not more than half a yard wide; the sides are smooth as if cut and polished by art, but whether it has been so, or formed by the continual friction of the water, or is merely a chasm in the rock, I cannot determine."

evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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OT02NY31.jpg
Marked by three chevrons across the stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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