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LANGDALE (GREAT), an upland vale in Langdale chapelry, Grasmere parish, Westmoreland. It commences at the Stake mountain, on the boundary with Cumberland; extends 5 miles south-eastward to Elterwater; forms two ravines, called Millgill and Mickleden, for nearly 2½ miles from its head; makes a junction with Little Langdale at Elter-water; and is traversed by the upper reaches of the river Brathay. A mountain-group, called the Langdale Pikes, occupies the space between Millgill and Mickleden; soars into three peaks, rugged, steep, and picturesque, the highest with an altitude of 2,424 feet; figures conspicuously in much of the Lake region; and commands, from all the peaks, especially from the highest, extensive and magnificent views. The reach downward from that mountain group to Elter-water is flanked on the right by Lingmoor, on the left by the Grasmere mountains; its sides are a continual alternation of spurs, large and small, high and low, from these mountain flanks; and its bottom is a series of flat tracts, everywhere variable, ranging from closeness to openness, and from circular sweep to sinuous progress. A darkly romantic waterfall, called the Dungeon Gill Force, is at the skirt of the Pikes. A road thence, by High Close into Grasmere, commands a surpassingly beautiful view. Quarries of blue slate are at Thrang and Elter-Water Crag, near the foot of the vale. See Dungeon-Gill and Elter-Water.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an upland vale" (ADL Feature Type: "valleys") |
| Administrative units: | Grasmere CP/Ch/AP Westmorland AncC |
| Place names: | GREAT LANGDALE | LANGDALE | LANGDALE GREAT |
| Place: | Langdale |
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