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| Scotch Gate, Near Sawrey | ||
| Scotch Gate | ||
| locality:- | Near Sawrey (etc) | |
| civil parish:- | Claife (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | road | |
| coordinates:- | SD367957 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3695 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
| references:- | Martineau 1855 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 item:- Scotch Gate |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 30:- "... We find a trace of the rebellion of 1745 in the name of a lane, called "Scotch Gate" (way.) It was here that the fearful Highlanders were looked for, on their march to Derby; and here they might have had all their own way if they had come; for Sawrey had no idea of showing fight. All the inhabitants, carrying all their valuables, hied away, and took refuge together in a solitary building which was called Cook's braw bog-house. And braw it must have been, to hold all the Sawreyans. ..." |
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