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| Hawell memorial, Underskiddaw | ||
| site name:- | Lonscale Fell | |
| civil parish:- | Underskiddaw (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| locality type:- | cross | |
| coordinates:- | NY28252569 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2825 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY22 | |
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 BPC01.jpg (taken 22.4.2008)  BPC02.jpg Inscribed stone:- "IN LOVING MEMORY OF / TWO SKIDDAW SHEPHERDS / EDWARD HAWELL, / OF LONSCALE / BORN OCTR. 21ST. 1815 / DIED JUNE 2ND. 1889, / AND HIS SON / JOSEPH HAWELL, / OF LONSCALE / BORN DECR. 24TH. 1854 / DIED FEBY. 20TH. 1891. / NOTED BREEDERS OF PRIZE / HERDWICK SHEEP." (taken 22.4.2008) |
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| hearsay:- |
The cross was erected by Canon Rawnsley as a memorial to two shepherds; Edward Hawell
1815-1889, and his son John 1854-1891. They bred Herdwick sheep. The memorial verses
come from Rawnsley's poem the Great Shepherd:- |
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| "Great Shepherd of Thy heavenly flock, These men have left our hill Their feet were on the living rock, Oh guide and bless them, still." |
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