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placename:-
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Giggleswick
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county:-
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North Yorkshire
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building/s
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coordinates:-
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SD8164
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10Km square:-
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SD86
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1Km square |
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old map:- |
Ford 1839 map
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of
Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by
Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. |
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Giggleswick
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placename:-
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Giggleswick
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county:-
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Yorkshire
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date:-
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1839
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1830s
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descriptive text:- |
West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
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Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West,
published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once
Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821. |
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goto source.
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Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
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Page 219:-
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... In approaching Settle, the crags on the left grew nearer
to our way, till we ascended Brunton-brow into a chearful
valley (though thin of trees) to Giggleswick, a village with
a small piece of water by its side, covered with cots: near
it a church which belongs also to Settle; ...
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Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late
18th century
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Page 276:-
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About a quarter of a mile before we arrived at Settle, we
turned to the right, along the road towards Kirkby-Lonsdale,
about a mile, under the high and romantic rocks called
Giggleswick-scar, ...
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Page 277:-
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Veni Giggleswick, parum frugis / Profert tellus, clausa
jugis: / Ibi vena prope vioe / Fluit, refluit, note, die; /
Neque norunt unde vena, / An a sale vel arena.
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Thence to Giggleswick, most steril, / Hemm'd with shelves
and rocks of peril. / Near to the way, as a traveller goes,
/ A fine fresh spring both ebbs and flows: / Neither know
the learn'd that travel, / What procures it, sand or gravel.
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Settle .. has no church or chapel: the church is at
Giggleswick, about a mile off, which appeared to be the
court end of the parish, consisting chiefly of gentlemen's
houses.
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date:-
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1760; 1769
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1760s
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Giggleswick Scar, North
Yorkshire |
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milestone,
Giggleswick |
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well, Giggleswick
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013
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