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Broken Gill plantation |
| locality:- |
Blease Fell |
| civil parish:- |
Tebay (formerly Westmorland) |
| county:- |
Cumbria |
| locality type:- |
wood |
| coordinates:- |
NY61800034 (etc) |
| 1Km square:- |
NY6100 |
| 10Km square:- |
NY60 |
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references:-
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It's said to be a memorial to a railway navvy killed when the Lancaster and Carlisle
Railway was built.
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In ground plan it is not, but from the motorway and the A685 it appears heart shaped:
and, there are lots of unlikely stories about why.
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A love story: two warring families, and a son and daughter fall in love. Denied their
match they decide on suicide. They met here, he runs her through with his sword, and
then kills himself. The grieving familes plant the wood in rememberance.
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Another love story: the trees were planted by a farmer's daughter whose loved one
died in flying combat in World War II; alternatively, an airman killed in an accident
nearby.
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A third love story: the trees were planted by a farmer to celebrate his marriage;
alternatively in memory of his late wife.
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Perhaps it was planted when the area of land was won in a game of cards.
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and so on.
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Richardson, Keith: 2011: Jack's Yak: River Greta Writer (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN
978 0 9559640 2 2
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