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Tiding Well, Shap Rural
Tiding Well
Skusgill Well
locality:-   unlocated
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland) (guess) 
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   well
locality type:-   ebbing and flowing well
locality type:-   spring
locality type:-   tiding well
1Km square:-   NY5415 (guess) 
10Km square:-   NY51 (guess) 
references:-   Drayton 1622
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Keer 1605 (edn 1620) 
source data:-   Map, Westmorlandia et Comberlandia, ie Westmorland and Cumberland now Cumbria, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, probably by Pieter van den Keere, or Peter Keer, about 1605, published about 1605 to 1676.
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third page  "[Shap Abbey] ... where there is a fountain or spring that ebbes and flowes many times a day, ..."
evidence:-   poem:- Drayton 1612/1622 text
item:-  Venedocian Fount; Demetian Spring
source data:-   Poem, Poly Olbion, by Michael Drayton, published by published by John Marriott, John Grismand and Thomas Dewe, and others? London, part 1 1612, part 2 1622.
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page 163:-  "...
... where I [Loder/Lowther] swell
Up from my Fountaine first, there is a Tyding-well,
That daily ebbs and flowes, (as Writers doe report)
The old Euripus doth, or in the selfe same sort,
The Venedocian Fount, or the Demetian Spring,
Or that which the cold Peake doth with her wonders bring,
..."
evidence:-   old map:- Drayton 1612/1622
placename:-  Tiding Well
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberlande and Westmorlande, by Michael Drayton, probably engraved by William Hole, scale about 4 or 5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Mariott, John Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, London, 1622.
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"Tiding well"
Well head with a ?naiad sitting on the wall. 
item:-  JandMN : 168
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- Bickham 1753-54
source data:-   Maps, A Map of Westmorland, 1753, and A Map of Cumberland, 1754, by George Bickham, James Street, Bunhill Fields, London; published 1750s-96.
"The Spring that ebbs and flows near Shap is esteemed a great natural Curiosity."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 148:-  "... [by] Shape, antiently Heye, a small monastery, ... is a fountain, which, like the Euripus ebbs and flows several times a day, ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 161:-  "..."
"... The ebbing well is now lost, its effect being purely fortuitous, and common in rocky countries."
hearsay:-  
 Speed, after mentioning Shap Abbey, adds,
"where there is a fountain or spring which ebbs and flows many times in a day"
it was called Skuskill well, and threw out a copious, but apparently a regular flowing stream.
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