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Low Well, Winskill
runs into:-    Briggle Beck (2)

Low Well
locality:-   Winskill
civil parish:-   Hunsonby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   spring
coordinates:-   NY57723470
1Km square:-   NY5734
10Km square:-   NY53

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 50 7) 
placename:-  Low Well
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:-   probably old photograph:- Bogg 1898
source data:-   Photograph, halftone print, At the Well, probably Low Well, near Winskill, Hunsonby, Cumberland, by Edmund Bogg, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
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Included on p.67 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. The text says that the well served Langwathby, the girls using a footpath crossing the Briggle Beck nearby. BUT:-  "Now the smiling faces, and troops of village girls with hoop and pail, will soon cease to congregate at this spot, for this is an age of waterworks and reservoirs, and the small village of Winskill is to have constant supply of water brought to their doors and the old-time trysting place will be a thing of the past. But as one elderly native remarked to the writer: "When we du hev't watter brow't et toun, we sall still gan dune to fetch et frae t'well; hisen't it a vast mure nataral te ev t'watter pure hout et grund, than te hev it out et lead pipes." ..."
item:-  JandMN : 231.22
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