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track, Sadgill to Stile End
Sadgill to Stile End
Stile End to Sadgill
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Kentmere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Westmorland
locality type:-   track route (ex road) 
locality type:-   byway
locality type:-   drove road (ex) 
10Km square:-   NY40


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BNK08.jpg  Entrance to Low Sadgill:-
(taken 19.3.2007)  
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BIH09.jpg  By the barn adjoining Low Sadgill.
(taken .5.2004)  
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BWZ45.jpg  Moss on a wall.
(taken 29.7.2012)  

 Kentmere parish boundary to Sadgill, photo record of walk (formerly )

evidence:-   old text:- Prior 1865
source data:-   Guide book, Ascents and Passes in the Lake District of England, by Herman Prior, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 1865.
Page 7:-  "... The road keeps ... on to the moor, from which it ascends by an easy slope to the summit of the Pass, keeping a stream which flows in front of the farm on its right until just below the top. Here it crosses the stream, goes through a gate, and then crosses the summit ridge, which is very narrow, to the side of the stream descending into Long Sleddale. Follow this until you reach another gate, with a second (wicket) gate, into a field just below it on the right. Here the road turns away from the Sleddale stream, going through the upper of these two gates; and then continuing without difficulty, with a wall on its right throughout, to the houses in the village. Opposite to these, a bridge is seen, on crossing which you are then in the main road up the valley. ..."
Page 50:-  "... a bridge is reached, opposite the first houses. Cross here, and go through a gate, up a slight ascent, and then take the left-hand turn, through another gate, leading up to a farm-house on that side of the road. Do not enter the farm buildings, but skirt around on the right of them, which brings you into a shady lane slanting up the hill behind the farm. At the end of this lane,a stone fence continues on your left, which is to be closely kept to, avoiding a"
Page 52:-  "somewhat attractive road which zigzags up the rising ground on the right, just above a stone barn. Following close by the wall, you reach a gate on the other side of which is the ravine of a stream descending into Sleddale from the fells on your right. On going through this gate, the road changes its direction, and keeps up by the stream, which is on its left-hand to the summit-level of the pass, - a mere neck of land. Here you go through another gate, and join a small stream descending on the Kentmere side of the mountain."
"..."

evidence:-   old map:- OS 1881-82 New Series (outline edition) 
source data:-   Map, engraving, area north of Kendal, Westmorland, New Series one inch map, outline edition, sheet 39, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1881-82.
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O21NY40S.jpg
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O21NY40X.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 61
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   records:- Curwen 1926
source data:-   Records Relating to the Barony of Kendale, supplementary vol.3, edited by John F Curwen, published by Titus Wilson and Son, Kendal, Westmorland, 1926.
CURWEN01.txt
"1717 May 3 : The inhabitants of Long Sleddale, Langdale, Grasmere, Rydal and Loughrigg, Ambleside, Troutbeck, Kentmere and several other townships in the Barony of Kendall, show that the great road and public highway between Hawksyde, Ambleside, Shap, Penrith and Appleby, very much used by travellers, drovers and others having occasion frequently to pass and repass to and from the said markets with cattle and other goods, in which public highway there is a water or rivulet called Sadgill which by the violent and sudden rain there is often raised and overflows its banks so that no passenger dare venture to cross the same and many times travellers are forced to stay two or three days before they dare to venture to cross and are often in danger with their cattle of being lost in crossing the said water to the great prejudice of trade, and pray that a bridge may be erected over the same; order that the Chief Constable view the same and report the cost of a bridge on 31 May next. K. Order Book, 1696-1724."

MN photo:-  
After a rain storm, 3.2 inches of rain which mostly fell between 11am and 1pm, 28 June 2012. The pictures are taken on the part of the track just below, at, and above the Hoghouse Gate.

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BWU84.jpg  Washed out from above
(taken 11.7.2012)  
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BWU85.jpg (taken 11.7.2012)  
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BWU86.jpg  At the gate,
(taken 11.7.2012)  
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BWU87.jpg (taken 11.7.2012)  
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BWU88.jpg (taken 11.7.2012)  


JandMN : 404
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BXO46.jpg  Rock, hand specimen of an igneous rock, rhyolite from a path, Longsleddale, Westmorland, NY48110505, 6 October 2008.
Coniston limestone series
(taken 6.10.2008)  

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