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| Fairy Kirk, Howk | ||
| Fairy Kirk | ||
| locality:- | Howk | |
| civil parish:- | Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | cave | |
| coordinates:- | NY31863978 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3139 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY33 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 37 12) placename:- Fairy Kirk |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) placename:- Fairy Kirk |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by
Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W
Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William
Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman,
Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd,
Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto sourcePage 97:- "a little to the right of which [Fairy Kettle] is a cavern eighteen yards long, called the Fairy Kirk, in which the noise of the cataract has an imposing effect: this and the Kettle, which is then filled, are inaccessible at high floods. ..." |
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