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Skelwith Fold, Skelwith Bridge
Skelwith Fold
locality:-   Skelwith Bridge
civil parish:-   Skelwith (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY35060284 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3502
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 2 6) 
placename:-  Skelwith Fold
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 print:- Green 1822 (plate 9) 
placename:-  Skelwith Fold
item:-  forestair
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Skelwith Fold, Skelwith, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1822.
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Plate 9 in Forty Etchings from Nature. 
printed at bottom:-  "SKELWITH FOLD. / Etched from Nature by William Green, &Published at Ambleside, Feby. 1, 1822."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6644.9
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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.
image MNU1P047, button  goto source
Page 47:-  "... Skelwith Fold. There the stranger must alight again, and go through a field gate to the right, to a rocky point, where he commands the finest view of the valley and its environs. ..."

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