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HATTERMIRE, an amphitheatre of lofty precipices of mountain limestone, in W. R. Yorkshire; 2 miles E of Settle. The precipices are so rent and fissured as to resemble ranges of basaltic columns; and a cave in the face of one of them was found to contain some implements of the Romans.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "an amphitheatre of lofty precipices of mountain limestone" (ADL Feature Type: "cliffs") |
Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
Place: | Attermire |
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