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war memorial, Great Gable
locality:-   Great Gable
civil parish:-   Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   war memorial
coordinates:-   NY21101034
1Km square:-   NY2110
10Km square:-   NY21


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CDN34.jpg (taken 9.7.2015)  
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CDN35.jpg (taken 9.7.2015)  
This is the original memorial, on display at the Armitt Library. It has been re-cast and the new memorial put back on Great Gable.

hearsay:-  
An area of fells, including Great Gable, was bought by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club, 1923; presented to the nation as a war memorial after World War I. A bronze tablet on the summit commemorates this, unveiled Whit Sunday, 1924.

Linton, Maureen & Whitmey, Ian &Smith, Peter: 2015: We Remember: Fell and Rock Climbing Club

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