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| Geordie's Crag, Martindale | ||
| Geordie's Crag | ||
| locality:- | Ullswater | |
| civil parish:- | Martindale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| locality type:- | headland | |
| coordinates:- | NY43622046 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4320 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY42 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 1) placename:- Geordies Crag |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Geordy Neb item:- gun; echoes |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 26:- "..." "Next sail past Skelly-Neb, towards the mountain Hallin, and at or near Geordy Crag fire your guns, taking notice to point them towards Gowbarrow-Hall, or a little above it. The echo here much surpasses that at Water-Millock, both in the loudness and frequency of its returns: the most astonishing circumstance is this, every peal seems to pass over the tops of the mountains in a whistling tone, as if embodied sound was flying from place to place in the air. After very numerous repetitions, various both in" goto sourcePage 27:- "length and loudness, all is still and silent for a few moments; when the sound returns with astonishing and redoubled violence down the valley in which How-Town is situated; so great now is the uproar, that all other repetitions seem mere whispers, and must be heard in order to convey any adequate idea to the reader." |
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