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    Dunmail Raise is the name of a large cairn in the English Lake District, which may have been an old boundary marker. It has given its name to the mountain...
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  • Dunmail is a legendary king of Cumbria associated with Dunmail Raise. According to tradition, Dunmail was the last king of Cumbria, and buried beneath...
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    side of Dunmail Raise, causing traffic to make a long detour. It reopened in May 2016.) To the west, a long ridge comes down from High Raise and contains...
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    trout river.[clarification needed] It rises close to Rough Crag above Dunmail Raise at a point about 1542 feet (470 m) above sea level (grid reference NY306108)...
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    imperial gallons (110 L) per person per day. This tunnelled section under Dunmail Raise was dug by two teams mining towards each other. The two tunnel sections...
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    Grasmere and passes the village of Grasmere. The road continues over Dunmail Raise and along the eastern edge of Thirlmere. Shortly afterwards it reaches...
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    running north, west and south east. Steel Fell rises to the west of the Dunmail Raise road and can be climbed from the summit, or from Grasmere and Wythburn...
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    these were important strategic places. The fell's western flanks above Dunmail Raise are grassy and smooth while its eastern slopes are steep and craggy...
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    return to the tarn, recover the crown and carry it down to the cairn on Dunmail Raise by the A591. Mher (see Daredevils of Sassoun). Artavazd I Legend has...
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    legendary resting place of the crown of Dunmail, following his—perhaps equally legendary—defeat in battle at Dunmail Raise. The outflow is to Ullswater, 3 miles...
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    and may be reached from Grasmere or Patterdale, or from Dunmail Raise by a path alongside Raise Beck. Above the tarn the old pony track zigzags up the...
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  • District. There is a two mile gap here before NCN6 restarts at Dunmail Raise. From Dunmail Raise there is an off-road path to the quiet road around the west...
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    organ" when seen from Mill Gill, "The howitzer" from the summit of Dunmail Raise and "The lion and the lamb" or "The lion couchant" from a point in between...
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    Round. These were: High White Stones (an area just to the north of High Raise) Hanging Knotts (a subsidiary summit of Bowfell) Looking Stead (a prominence...
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  • may well be a grandson of Dyfnwal. Dyfnwal is likely the eponym of Dunmail Raise in England, and possibly Cardonald and Dundonald/Dundonald Castle in...
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    Kendal, and North Lancashire, bounded on the north by the river Duddon, Dunmail Raise, Kirkstone Pass, and Borrow Beck, and on the south by the river Ribble...
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  • follows minor roads along the west of Thirlmere, before climbing up Dunmail Raise. It passes through the village of Grasmere and over Red Bank into Elterwater...
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    distance (13.4 km (8.5 mi) as the crow flies), it leaves the parish at Dunmail Raise. The A592 road passes through the eastern area of the parish. The col...
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    building dating to the 16th century. An old coaching inn at the foot of Dunmail Raise, the building is two storeys, roughcast over stone rubble with a slate...
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    for Grisedale Tarn. This puts the summit into reach from Grasmere or Dunmail Raise. St Sunday Crag now finds itself on Alfred Wainwright's popular Coast...
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    1098/rsta.1900.0015. JSTOR 90755. —— (1901). "On the Origin of the Dunmail Raise (Lake District)". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 57 (1–4):...
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    of the tunnel under Dunmail Raise (made redundant by a water treatment plant at the southern exit of the tunnel under the Raise) which began operation...
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    council. The parish covers an area on either side of the A591 road from Dunmail Raise in the south to the outskirts of Keswick in the north, and extends to...
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    Wainwright’s words ‘To the west, uninteresting grass slopes descend to Dunmail Raise almost unrelieved by rock and scarred only by the wide stony track gouged...
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  • Derwent. At the head of Thirlmere is the pass of Dunmail Raise, crossed by the A591 road. South of Dunmail Raise the Vale of Grasmere runs down to Windermere...
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    Fell, p. 2. Wainwright Vol 2, Selside Pike, p. 3. Wainwright Vol 3, High Raise, pp. 5,6. Wainwright Vol 3, High Tove, p. 1,2. Wainwright Vol 3, Armboth...
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    years, with territory extending to Dunmail Raise (or 'cairn') in the south of the Cumbrian region (and perhaps Dunmail was trying to extend it through 'Westmoringa...
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    years, with territory extending to Dunmail Raise (or 'cairn') in the south of the Cumbrian region (and perhaps Dunmail was trying to extend it through 'Westmoringa...
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    between Grasmere and Keswick in the Lake District, was washed away at Dunmail Raise with a landslip occurring adjacent to Thirlmere. In the Republic of...
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  • society's first official acts was to campaign for the protection of the Dunmail Raise cairn, and to organise an archaeological dig on the Low Borrow Bridge...
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