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Rossett Gill
runs into:-    Mickleden Beck
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
locality type:-   valley
1Km square:-   NY2507
10Km square:-   NY20

photograph
BNL52.jpg (taken 26.3.2007)  
photograph
BSI87.jpg  Drumlins at the bottom of the higher gill.
(taken 23.3.2010)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 1) 
placename:-  Rossett Gill
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.
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY20NE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, View from Rossett Ghyll, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0644.jpg
internegative at lower left:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS307
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Marr 1916
placename:-  Rossett Gill
source data:-   Photograph, halftone print, Moraine Mounds, foot of Rossett Gill, Langdale, Westmorland, 1916.
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MA1223.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 173.31
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- Garnett 1850s-60s A
placename:-  Rosset Ghyll
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Head of Langdale, from the Blea Tarn Road, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 2nd edn 1860s?
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GAR6E2.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 149.3
Image © see bottom of page

photograph
BRW55.jpg  Upper gully,
(taken 11.11.2009)  
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BPF60.jpg  Upper gully, looking to Mickleden,
(taken 20.5.2008)  
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BRW50.jpg (taken 11.11.2009)  
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BRW51.jpg (taken 11.11.2009)  
story:-  
 A story is told by Hudson, told him by his guide, the son of a local farmer in 1851:-
"High up above the vale of Great Langdale we came to the Old Woman's Grave. Tradition relates that a Westmoreland woman, who was in the practice, for many years, of going over into Cumberland to receive an annuity, perished in the mountains. She was buried on the spot, and a row of flat stones marks her grave. My guide pointed to the hollow, a few yards below, where the body is said to have been found."
According to H Mounsey of Skelwith reported by Alfred Wainwright much later, a pack woman used to walk the area selling haberdashery etc in the mid 18th century. She died beside the gill in a storm, and is buried in an unmarked grave.
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