Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| Gale Fell, Loweswater | ||
| Gale Fell | ||
| civil parish:- | Loweswater (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| locality type:- | fell | |
| coordinates:- | NY138165 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1316 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY11 | |
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| hearsay:- |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notebook, 12 November 1799, mentions that:- |
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| "A little beyond Scale Force a man, Jerome Bowman, slipped, broke his leg, and crawled
on his hands and knees up and down hill three miles ..." |
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| in the night, to his cottage. His wounds festered and he died soon after. |
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