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Smuggler's Hut, Great Gable
Smuggler's Hut
site name:-   Gable Crag
site name:-   Great Gable
civil parish:-   Ennerdale and Kinniside (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   building/s (ruin) 
coordinates:-   NY211104 (rough;y) 
1Km square:-   NY2110
10Km square:-   NY21

hearsay:-  
The hut is now a ruin but would have been a good place to hide illicitly distilled whisky, stolen black lead, and any other smuggle being transported on the Moses' Trod route. Moses Rigg is said to have had a hideaway up here somewhere.
In 1890, W P Heskett-Smith climbing with friends, found this hut, which they named the Smuggler's Shelter, on a wide ledge below the summit of Great Gable.

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