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Ashgill Force, Alston Moor
Ashgill Force
site name:-   Ash Gill
locality:-   Ashgill
civil parish:-   Alston Moor (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   waterfall
coordinates:-   NY75864048
1Km square:-   NY7540
10Km square:-   NY74

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 42 10) 
placename:-  Ashgill Force
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:- Ford 1839 map
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Waterfall"
2 lines across stream. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old print:- Wallace 1861
placename:-  Ashgill Force
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Ashgill Force, drawn by William Wallace, published by Edward Stanford, 6 Charing Cross, London, 1861.
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Plate 6, tipped in opposite p.41 of The Laws which Regulate the Deposit of Lead Ore in Veins. 
printed at bottom left, centre:-  "Drawn by W. Wallace. / ASHGILL FORCE."
item:-  private collection : 159.3
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