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Dungeon Ghyll Force, Great Langdale
Dungeon Ghyll Force
site name:-   Dungeon Ghyll
locality:-   Great Langdale
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   waterfall
coordinates:-   NY29030658 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY2906
10Km square:-   NY20
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 3) 
placename:-  Dungeon Gill Force
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.
evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.
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Marked by three chevrons across the stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Dungeon Gill Force
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.
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Page 44:-  "DUNGEON GILL is a stream issuing between the two Pikes of Langdale. The water falls about 20 yards into an awful chasm, with overhanging sides of rock, between which, a large block of stone is impended like the key-stone of an arch."
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Page 104:-  "... A curious waterfall may be seen in Dungeon Gill - a stream issuing between the two Pikes, and falling among rocks of a peculiar flinty appearance. Mill Beck is the stream flowing from Stickle Tarn, and gives name to two farm-houses, at one of which it may be convenient to leave the horses, while visiting Dungeon Gill."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Dungeon Gill
item:-  height, Dungeon Ghyll Force
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 38:-  ".."
"In a fissure of the mountain, and enclosed by gloomy rocks, is Dungeon Gill, a considerable stream tumbling from a lofty precipice, between sides of impending and perpendicular rock, into a deep dark basin. From the summit a fragment of rock is suspended, forming a rude arch; the stranger will admire, but shudder, to pass this natural bridge."
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Page 179:-  "WATERFALLS."
No. Name and Situation of Fall. Height.
6 Dungeon Gill, Langdale 90 feet
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Dungeon Gill
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Dungeon Gill"
two lines across a stream, waterfall 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   old print with text:- Pyne 1853
placename:-  Dungeon Gill Force
source data:-   Print, tinted lithograph, Dungeon Gill Force, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by James Baker Pyne, published by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, Lancashire, 1853.
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Title page of The English Lake District by J.B.Pyne.  "THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT, / BY / J. B. PYNE. / [lithograph] DUNGEON GILL FORCE // MANCHESTER / PUBLISHED BY THOS. AGNEW & SONS. 1853. / HANHART IMPT."
from the descriptive text for Dungeon Gill Force:-  "... Mr. Wordsworth has made this picturesque spot the scene of one of his beautiful pastorals, "The Little Shepherd-Boys," in which it is thus described"
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""If ever you to Langdale go;"
"Into a chasm a mighty block"
"Hath fallen, and made a bridge of rock."
"The gulf is deep below;"
"And in a basin, black and small,"
"Receives a lofty waterfall.""
"The touching incident related by the poet is a real one. A shepherd-boy was passing, "with a staff in hand, across the cleft," when his steps were arrested by "a piteous moan," and looking down, he discovered,-"
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""A lamb, that in the pool was pent"
"Within that black and frightful rent,""
"which had been borne into the "gulf profound" by the torrent, and which, with the assistance of the poet, was rescued from it perilous situation. ..."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6678.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Pyne 1853
placename:-  Dungeon Gill Force ???
source data:-   Print, coloured lithograph, Dungeon Gill Force, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by James Baker Pyne, engraved by W Gauci, published by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, Lancashire, 1853.
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Title page of The English Lake District by J.B.Pyne.  "THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT / BY / J. B. PYNE. / [lithograph] DUNGEON GILL FORCE // MANCHESTER / PUBLISHED BY THOS. AGNEW & SONS. 1853. / W. GAUCI. LITH. / HANHART IMPT."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6677.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
item:-  placename, Dungeon Ghyll
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
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Page 146:-  "..."
"From that farmhouse [Milbeck], where travellers can make a good meal of farmhouse fare, there is one thing to be done without doubt;- to visit Dungeon Ghyll. ..."
"Strangers who arrive untired generally go to the Ghyll while their ham and eggs are preparing. The green path on the hill side will be pointed out from the farm: and the traveller must take care not to make for the waterfall he sees in front. The path he wants tends to the left, till it reaches a fence and gate, when it turns sharp to the right; after which there is no possibility of losing the way. It presently joins the stream from the force, which leads up into a deep and dark fissure,- "Dungeon" and "Ghyll" both meaning a fissure. There is a well secured ladder, by which ladies easily descend to the mouth of the chasm; and when they have caught sight of the fall, they can please themselves about scrambling any further. There is the fall in its cleft, tumbling and splashing, while the light ash, and all the vegetation besides is everlastingly in motion from the stir of the air. Above, a bridge is made, high aloft, by the lodgment of a block in the chasm. The finest season for visiting this force is in a summer afternoon. Then the sun streams in obliquely,"
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Page 147:-  "- a narrow, radiant, translucent screen; itself lighting up the gorge, but half concealing the projections and waving ferns behind it. The way in which it converts the spray into sparks and many-coloured gems can be believed only by those who have seen it."
evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.
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Page 180:-  "WATERFALLS."
"No. : Names and Situations of Falls. : Counties : Feet in Height."
"2 : Dungeon Ghyll Force, Langdale : Westmorland : 90"
evidence:-   old print:- Nelson 1859
source data:-   Print, Nelson print, Dungeon Gill, the force, Great Langdale, Westmorland, published by T Nelson and Sons, London etc, 1859.
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printed, bottom  "DUNGEON GILL."
item:-  Armitt Library : 2003.13.12
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evidence:-   old print:- Payn 1867
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Dungeon Gill, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by W J Linton, published by J Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1867.
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On p.47 of The Lakes in Sunshine, text by James Payn. 
item:-  Fell and Rock Climbing Club : 184.24
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evidence:-   old print:- Nelson 1853 (edn 1880s) 
placename:-  Dungeon Gill
source data:-   Print, chromolithograph, Dungeon Gill, Great Langdale, Westmorland, published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1880s?
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At the end of Views of the English Lakes, and Tourists Guide to the English Lakes. 
printed at bottom:-  "DUNGEON GILL"
item:-  JandMN : 474.28
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Dungeon Ghyll Force, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS601
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Dungeon Ghyll Force, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS300
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evidence:-   old print:- Bemrose 1881
placename:-  Dungeon Gill Fall
source data:-   Print, uncoloured, Dungeon Gill Fall, Great Langdale, Westmorland, published by Bemrose and Sons, 23 Old Bailey, London and Derby, by A B Moss, Carlisle, Cumberland, and by T Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland, about 1881.
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On p.52 of a Handy Guide to the English Lakes and Shap Spa. 
printed at bottom:-  "DUNGEON GILL FALL."
item:-  JandMN : 455.15
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evidence:-   old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) 
placename:-  Dungeon Ghyll Force
source data:-   Print, colour halftone, Dungeon Ghyll Force, Langdale, Westmorland, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908.
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Opposite p.34 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. 
printed at tissue opposite the print:-  "DUNGEON GHYLL FORCE, LANGDALE"
printed at signed lower left:-  "[A HEATON COOPER]"
item:-  JandMN : 468.11
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evidence:-   old print:- Reynolds 1915
placename:-  Dungeon Ghyll Force
source data:-   Print, colour halftone, Dungeon Ghyll Force, Great Langdale, Westmorland, from a painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1915.
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"A HEATON COOPER"
"DUNGEON GHYLL FORCE."
item:-  JandMN : 1071.6
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evidence:-   old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) 
source data:-   Print, etching? Dungeon Ghyll, the force, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
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Tipped in opposite p.168 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. 
printed at lower centre:-  "Dungeon Ghyll"
printed at lower right:-  "HG"
item:-  JandMN : 382.32
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evidence:-   old print:- Sylvan 1847
source data:-   Print, engraving, Dungeon Gill, the force, Great Langdale, Westmorland, published by John Johnstone, Paternoster Row, London, et al, 1847.
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On p.79 of Sylvan's Pictorial Guide to the English Lakes. 
printed at bottom:-  "DUNGEON GILL."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1201.26
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evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Dungeon Ghyl
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Dungeon Ghyl, Westmorland, drawn by T L Rowbotham, engraved by Whymper, 1920s-30s?
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On page 228 of Picturesque Europe, The Lake Country. 
printed at lower left, right:-  "T. L. Rowbotham / WHYMPER"
printed at bottom:-  "Dungeon Ghyl"
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.322
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evidence:-   old print:- Robertson 1911
placename:-  Dungeon Ghyll
source data:-   Print, lithograph? Dungeon Ghyll, Langdale, from a watercolour by Arthur Tucker, published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1911.
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Tipped in opposite p.272 of Wordsworthshire by Eric Robertson. 
printed at bottom:-  "DUNGEON GHYLL, LANGDALE"
signed at painting lower left:-  "Arthur Tucker"
item:-  JandMN : 197.47
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evidence:-   old print:- Pearson 1900s
placename:-  Dungeon Gill
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Dungeon Gill, the force, Westmorland, published by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s.
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On p.125 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts. 
printed at bottom:-  "DUNGEON GILL. (p.124)."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1188.53
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evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Dungeon Gill
source data:-   Print, chromolithograph, Dungeon Gill, Westmorland, published by T Nelson and Sons, London, 1900s?
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From a set of prints, The Scenery of the English Lakes 
printed at lower right:-  "T. NELSON &SONS"
printed at bottom left:-  "DUNGEON GILL"
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.163
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evidence:-   old print:- Bogg 1898
placename:-  Dungeon Ghyll
source data:-   Print, engraving, Dungeon Ghyll, Great Langdale, Lakes, Westmorland, by Gilbert Foster from photographs by T H Fearnley, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
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Included on p.182 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. 
item:-  JandMN : 231.67
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evidence:-   old print:- Payn 1860s-70s
placename:-  Dungeon Gill
source data:-   Print, colour printed, Dungeon Gill, the force, Great Langdale, Westmorland, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 1860s-70s?
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Tipped in opposite p.30 of England's Lakeland, a Tour Therein, by James Payn. 
printed at bottom:-  "DUNGEON GILL."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1183.7
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evidence:-   old print:- 
placename:-  Dungeon Ghyll
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Dungeon Ghyll, Cumberland, drawn by W Harvey, published late 19th century?
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On a page of The Land We Live In. 
printed at lower left, right:-  "[W. HARVEY ] / [ ]"
printed at bottom:-  "7.- DUNGEON GHYLL."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.344
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evidence:-   old print:- Pyne 1853
placename:-  Dungeon Gill
source data:-   Dungeon Gill drawn by James Barker Pyne, 1848-1853, lithographed by W R Tymms, 1859.
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"Dungeon Gill"
item:-  JandMN : 97.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Garnett 1850s-60s F
placename:-  Dungeon Ghyll
item:-  ladder
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Dungeon Ghyll, Cumberland, engraved by William Banks and Son, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s?
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Same series as Views of the English Lakes. 
printed at bottom:-  "Engd. by W. Banks &Son, Edinr. / DUNGEON GHYLL."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.497
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evidence:-   old print:- Garnett 1850s-60s F
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Dungeon Ghyll, Cumberland, engraved by William Banks and Son, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s?
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Found with Views of the English Lakes. 
printed at bottom:-  "Engd. by W. Banks &Son, Edinr. / DUNGEON GHYLL."
item:-  JandMN : 165.15
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evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35
placename:-  Dungeon Gill
source data:-   Print, engraving, Dungeon Gill, Westmorland, by Thomas Allom, engraved by W Tombleson, 1832.
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item:-  JandMN : 66.25
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