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Blea Moor, Dent
Blea Moor
civil parish:-   Dent (formerly Yorkshire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   moor
coordinates:-   SD771823 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD7782
10Km square:-   SD78
county:-   North Yorkshire

hearsay:-  
When a railway engineer, Shapland, was staking out the centre line of the Settle and Carlisle Railway, 1869-70, he stayed at an inn on Blea Moor. He got snowed in; the snow came to 18 ins above the lintel of the door. The landlord had to burrow out to get drinking water from a horse trough; luckily they had enough food.

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