Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Dunmail Raise like this:

DUNMAIL-RAISE, a mountain-pass on the mutual border of Westmoreland and Cumberland; on the road from Ambleside to Keswick, 1¼ mile S of Wythburn. Its summit has a height of 720 feet above sea-level; is lower than any mountain-pass between Black-Combe and the boundary of Durham; and has an ancient cairn, said to have been formed in 945, by the Anglo-Saxon king Edmund, to commemorate the defeat and death of Dunmail, the last king of Cumbria. The sides of the pass are flanked by Steel-Fell and Seat-Sandal; and...

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the southern descent of it commands a sudden and very grand view over the vale of Grasmere.

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