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Sour Milk Gill (3)
Sour Milk Gill
Sourmilk Gill
Churn Milk Force
site name:-   Easedale Beck
locality:-   Easedale
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   waterfall
1Km square:-   NY3108 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY30

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BNR38.jpg (taken 22.5.2007)  
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BNR40.jpg (taken 22.5.2007)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) 
placename:-  Sourmilk Gill
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:-   possibly old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  White Churn Gill
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1792 p.882  "..."
"July 29. We went up a narrow lane about half a mile from the church, which gave us a new view of Grassmere valley, with a perpetual water-fall, justly, from its force, called White-Churn Gill; it seemed to rush from a crescent-heathed hill, and forms one of the most considerable brooks that supplies Grassmere."
"..."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Sourmilk Gill
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 34:-  "... Easdale Tarn, ... Its stream - from its frothy whiteness called Sour-milk Gill - is a striking object from the road. ..."
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Page 46:-  "SOUR-MILK GILL is a name applied to some mountain torrents, on account of their frothy whiteness resembling Butter-milk from the churn. We have Sour-milk Gill near Buttermere, Sour-milk Gill in Grasmere, and Sour-milk Gill near the Black-lead Mine in Borrowdale."
evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Sour Milk Ghyll Force
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 51:-  "... the waterfall,- the foaming cataract, which is seen all over the valley, and is called Sour Milk Ghyll Force. ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Sour Milk Force
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."
"11 : Sour Milk Force : Cumberland : 60"
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Sour Milk Gill on Easedale Beck, Easedale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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internegative at lower right:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS181
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BNR39.jpg (taken 22.5.2007)  
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BSX41.jpg  After a dry Spring.
(taken 27.6.2010)  
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BNR41.jpg (taken 22.5.2007)  
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BNR42.jpg (taken 22.5.2007)  
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BUF61.jpg (taken 14.3.2011)  
MN photo:-  
 In a very dry month.

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CBU28.jpg (taken 24.9.2014)  
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CBU29.jpg (taken 24.9.2014)  
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CBU30.jpg (taken 24.9.2014)  
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