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glacial erratics, Cumbria
county:-   Cumbria
also see:-    geology, Cumbria
Far Away Stone
Boulders of Shap granite, very recognizable, are found littered across Westmorland.

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evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
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 1833 part 1 p.4  "... The rude masses of stone, of which the temple [Karl Lofts] is made, consist chiefly of the granite and grauwacke, which abound in the mountains to the west of Shap. They are all diluvial; and immense numbers of similar sorts of blocks are found all over the hills about Shap and Orton, and as far east as about Appleby and Brough. Some blocks of the Wastdale granite (a district to the south west of Shap) are even left upon the bare limestone strata on Stanemore; one lies as a curiosity in the street of Darlington; and rounded fragments of the same kind are often found in the"
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag 1833
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Gentleman's Magazine 1833 part 1 p.5  "gravel-heaps of the south-western parts of the county of Durham. Near to the ancient beds from which all the granite blocks were torn, the Wastdale-beck rolls over prodigious quantities of them; and about three years since, when the"
evidence:-   old map:- Goodchild 1875 (Geology/Cum) 
item:-  glacial erratic; ice sheet; glacier
source data:-   Map, colour lithograph, Glacial Phenonema of the Eden Valley, scale about 3 miles to 1 inch, by J G Goodchild, engraved by Dangerfield, 22 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, published by the Geological Society, 1875.
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Included in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society vol.31 plate 2. 
Shows the extent of ice sheets and spread of glacial erratics over an area from the High Street part of the central Lakes, Eden Valley, Kent Valley, and Pennines from Cross Fell to Penyghent. 
printed at lower left:-  "MAP / to illustrate the / GLACIAL PHENOMENA OF THE EDEN VALLEY, &C."
printed at top right:-  "Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Vol.XXXI, Pl.II"
printed at bottom right:-  "Dangerfield, Lith. 22, Bedford St. Covent Garden."
printed at :-  "3 Miles to 1 inch"
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 290
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Marr 1916 (Lakes/Cum/Geology) 
item:-  geology; glacial erratic; Shap Granite; granite
source data:-   Geological map, uncoloured lithograph, Distribution of Shap Granite Boulders, by J E Marr, published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 1916.
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On p.154 of The Geology of the Lake District. 
printed at bottom:-  "... Map shewing distribution of Shap Granite Boulders."
item:-  JandMN : 173.7
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BPR85.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Gamelands, Orton S, NY64000817 -- A boulder, ?glacial erratic. (photo 3.10.2008)
BPR86.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Gamelands, Orton S, NY64000817 -- A boulder, bits of ?granite embedded in ? (photo 3.10.2008)
CGW61.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge stile, Shap, NY56901490 -- and glacial erratic, Shap Granite. (photo 10.11.2017)
BUV40.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Vickerstown Park, Walney Island, SD185687 -- Glacial erratic. (photo 1.7.2011)
BUV41.jpg thumbnail, click to enlarge Vickerstown Park, Walney Island, SD185687 -- Glacial erratic, plaque:- (photo 1.7.2011)
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