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Keld Head, North Yorkshire
Keld Head
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   spring
coordinates:-   SD69587659
1Km square:-   SD6976
10Km square:-   SD67
evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Keld's Head
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P245, button  goto source
Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century 
Page 245:-  "... About a mile higher [than Thornton Force] we came to the head of the river, which issues from one fountain called Keld's-head, [1] to all appearance more copious than St. Winifred's Well, in Flintshire; though there is a broken, serpentine, irregular channel, extending to the top of the vale, down which a large stream is poured from the mountains in rainy weather. ..."
"[1] Keld seems the ancient Saxon or British word for spring or fountain and is often made use of in that sense in these parts of Yorkshire"
evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
placename:-  Keld Head
source data:-   Map, the hills in the Ingleton area, probably by Robert R Balderston, engraved by Goodall and Suddick, Leeds, West Yorkshire, about 1890.
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BS1SD67Y.jpg
"Keld Head"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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