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Mere Gill
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   SD7475
10Km square:-   SD77
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Balderston c1890
source data:-   Book, Ingleton, Bygone and Present, by Robert R and Margaret Balderston, published by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, and by Edmndson and Co, 24 High Street, Skipton, Yorkshire, about 1890.
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page 43:-  "..."
"Some distance further along the flats [of Ingleborough] to the south-west, and in a position intermediate between God's Bridge and the spur of Ingleborough, called Swine's Tail, is a rapid mountain stream, by the sides of which various ferns grow in great abundance; its extent, however, upon the moorland"
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page 44:-  "is not very great, for its course is suddenly intercepted by a tremendous canyon [Mere Gill Hole] ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Balderston c1890 map
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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"Mere Gill Head Spring"
item:-  private collection : 27.1
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