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| Black Force, Sedbergh | ||
| Black Force | ||
| site name:- | Little Ulgill Beck | |
| locality:- | Howgill Fells | |
| civil parish:- | Sedbergh (formerly Yorkshire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | waterfall | |
| coordinates:- | SD64419914 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD6499 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD69 | |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) placename:- Black Force, The |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto sourcePage 189:- "..." "THE BLACK FORCE is a place frequented by few but the shepherds, and should not be attempted without a guide. It is a most terrific scene when visited in an evening. An enormous hollow in the mountain, about a quarter of a mile in length, and of an immense depth, yawns before you. You enter, and find a chasm, whose black walls seem to reach the top of the hill; at the" goto sourcePage 190:- "upper end of which is a cascade, whose stream is lost in spray before it reaches the bottom, which is strewed with enormous fragments of rock. ..." |
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