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Geordie's Crag, Martindale
Geordie's Crag
locality:-   Ullswater
civil parish:-   Martindale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
locality type:-   headland
coordinates:-   NY43622046
1Km square:-   NY4320
10Km square:-   NY42

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 1) 
placename:-  Geordies Crag
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.

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Geordy Neb
item:-  gunechoes
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 26:-  "..."
"Next sail past Skelly-Neb, towards the mountain Hallin, and at or near Geordy Crag fire your guns, taking notice to point them towards Gowbarrow-Hall, or a little above it. The echo here much surpasses that at Water-Millock, both in the loudness and frequency of its returns: the most astonishing circumstance is this, every peal seems to pass over the tops of the mountains in a whistling tone, as if embodied sound was flying from place to place in the air. After very numerous repetitions, various both in"
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Page 27:-  "length and loudness, all is still and silent for a few moments; when the sound returns with astonishing and redoubled violence down the valley in which How-Town is situated; so great now is the uproar, that all other repetitions seem mere whispers, and must be heard in order to convey any adequate idea to the reader."

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