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So I returned [from Lowther Hall] 4 mile back to Peroth ... and came by a round green spott of a large circumfference which they keep cut round with a banke round it like a bench; its story is that it was the table a great Giant 6 yards tall used to dine at and there entertained another of nine yards tall which he afterwards killed; there is the length in the Church yard how farre he could leape a great many yards; ... Travel book, manuscript record of Journeys through England including parts of the Lake District, by Celia Fiennes, 1698. Taken from the very excellent website Guides to the Lakes http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelakes/html/simpson/smp3fram.htm

Posted by fitzcoraldo 27th May 2008ce

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