Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wasdale (or Wastdale)

Wasdale (or Wastdale), vale of Wastwater, Cumberland; extends 7½ miles SW. from foot of Styhead Pass to 5 miles NE. of Ravenglass; is girt by Yewbarrow, Kirk Fell, Great Gable, Lingmell, and the Screes.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "vale"   (ADL Feature Type: "valleys")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC
Place names: WASDALE     |     WASDALE OR WASTDALE
Place: Wasdale

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