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Broken Gill Plantation, Tebay
Broken Gill plantation
locality:-   Blease Fell
civil parish:-   Tebay (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   wood
coordinates:-   NY61800034 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY6100
10Km square:-   NY60

references:-  
It's said to be a memorial to a railway navvy killed when the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway was built.
In ground plan it is not, but from the motorway and the A685 it appears heart shaped: and, there are lots of unlikely stories about why.
A love story: two warring families, and a son and daughter fall in love. Denied their match they decide on suicide. They met here, he runs her through with his sword, and then kills himself. The grieving familes plant the wood in rememberance.
Another love story: the trees were planted by a farmer's daughter whose loved one died in flying combat in World War II; alternatively, an airman killed in an accident nearby.
A third love story: the trees were planted by a farmer to celebrate his marriage; alternatively in memory of his late wife.
Perhaps it was planted when the area of land was won in a game of cards.
and so on.

Richardson, Keith: 2011: Jack's Yak: River Greta Writer (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN 978 0 9559640 2 2

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