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Fairy Steps, Beetham
Fairy Steps
site name:-   Whin Scar
civil parish:-   Beetham (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   track
locality type:-   corpse road
coordinates:-   SD48737893 (about) 
1Km square:-   SD4878
10Km square:-   SD47

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 46 7) 
placename:-  Fairy Steps
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.

hearsay:-  
This is part of the corpse road from Arnside, which was once just a chapel of Beetham, to the parish church.

story:-  
The fairies here grant that your wish made at the foot of the steps will be granted, on condition that you skip up the steps to the top of Whin Scar without touching the sides of the narrow way.

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