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| Span Dub, Kirkby Stephen | ||
| Span Dub | ||
| site name:- | Eden, River | |
| locality:- | Stenkrith | |
| locality:- | Kirkby Stephen | |
| civil parish:- | Kirkby Stephen (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | pool (in river) | |
| coordinates:- | NY77340747 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7707 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY70 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 23 15) placename:- Span Dub |
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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. "Span Dub" |
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| hearsay:- |
At one time the rocks between which the Eden flows could be spanned by hand, BUT.
William Kitching, vandal and stonemason, declared he would be the last man to span
Eden, and broke several inches off the rocks where they almost touched. |
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| "It was varra bad, varra bad on him, he sudn't hev done it. It was a girt cuer'osity,
t' span t'Eden." |
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