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| footbridge, Borrowdale | ||
| Hallworth Memorial | ||
| site name:- | Greenup Gill | |
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | footbridge | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| coordinates:- | NY27421298 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2712 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
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 BOG03.jpg (taken 5.10.2007)  BOG04.jpg Memorial plaque:- "THIS BRIDGE WAS RE-ERECTED / IN MEMORY OF / GORDON HALLWORTH, AGED 21 YEARS, / A DEVOTED MEMBER OF THE / MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY MOUNTAINEERING CLUB / WHO DURING THE NIGHT FOLLOWING 7TH. JANUARY 1939 / DIED OF EXHAUSTION IN THIS DALE / NOTWITHSTANDING THE SELF-SACRIFICING ASSISTANCE / OF HIS TWO COMPANIONS AND THE STRENUOUS EFFORTS OF / A RELIEF PARTY OF THEIR FRIENDS. / MAY 1939." (taken 5.10.2007) |
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 BOG05.jpg View of river. (taken 5.10.2007) |
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