Sulphur spring at Gilsland Spa
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Description
"The original spa well and its associated buildings were further along the gorge. This outlet was built close to the lower footbridge in 1964. In Robinson's “Essay towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumberland” in 1709 Gillesland Spa is mentioned as “a sulphurated spa so strong of the mineral that the smell of the water may be smelt at a great distance from it. It tingeth silver with a goldish or copperish colour. It seems by the taste and smell it hath of gunpowder to have something of nitre in it. By bathing it cures itches, scabs, and ulcers in the flesh and skin.” Quoted in Gillesland by G. G. Mounsey (1865) http://www.laverocks.co.uk/mounsey/gillesland.htm" Photo by Andrew Curtis, 2019. -
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License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6121335
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 1 year ago
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Picture Taken: 2019-04-14 -
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