Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Karl Lofts

Karl Lofts, remarkable antiquity, Westmorland, 2 miles S. of Shap; was originally an area ½ mile long, and from 30 to 60 ft. wide, enclosed by lines of unhewn granite blocks of great size; it is now intersected by the Lancashire and Carlisle Railway.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "remarkable antiquity"   (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites")
Administrative units: Westmorland AncC
Place: Karl Lofts

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