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Tom Smith's Leap, Dalston
Tom Smith's Leap
locality:-   Chalk Beck
locality:-   Chalk Quarries
civil parish:-   Dalston (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY33934748
1Km square:-   NY3347
10Km square:-   NY34

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 30 9) 
placename:-  Tom Smith's Leap
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.

story:-  
Tom Smith leapt from the rocks here to escape pursuit for felony, and died on the rocks below.

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