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| Faery Chasm, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite | ||
| Faery Chasm | ||
| site name:- | Duddon, River | |
| civil parish:- | Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | gorge | |
| coordinates:- | SD23439930 (roughly) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2399 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD29 | |
| SummaryText:- | named this by William Wordsworth | |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) placename:- Faery Chasm |
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| source data:- | Print, etching? The Faery Chasm, on the River Duddon, Cumberland, by Harry Goodwin,
1883, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890. click to enlargePR1625.jpg Tipped in opposite p.264 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. printed at lower centre:- "The Faery Chasm" item:- JandMN : 382.55 Image © see bottom of page |
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