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Fell Foot Wood, Staveley-in-Cartmel
Fell Foot Wood
locality:-   Fell Foot
civil parish:-   Staveley-in-Cartmel (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   wood
coordinates:-   SD38418717 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD3887
10Km square:-   SD38

evidence:-   probably old text:- Clarke 1787
item:-  coppicingcharcoal
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 CL13P152, button  goto source
Page 152:-  "..."
"... along the southern margin of the Lake; this is a pleasant road in point of rural beauty, but affords nothing for either the historian or antiquarian. The soil is barren, and produces little or nothing but wood, which is remarkablY quick of growth whilst young; at the age of twenty or twenty-five years, its growth seems to slacken, (probably on account of the shallowness of the soil,) and therefore the proprietors cut it every fourteen or sixteen years for charcoal, hoops, and such like purposes: They take care, however, to cut always such a proportion that there may remain an equal quantity to cut every year. So naturally productive is this county of wood, that should a piece of the common be inclosed, in a few years it is spontaneously planted. ..."

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