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Blentarn Ghyll is the name of a little narrow gorge in those Westmorland mountains, called Langdale Pikes, at whose feet lie the lovely green vale and lake of Grasmere.
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Morbus Iff sez, "Ghyll is a Creative Common licensed player-created world per the rules of" Lexicon: an RPG "(think: a fictional wikipedia, constrained by integration, consecutive letter definitions, and cranky scholars that write before 'before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be)').
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It was the home of the Ritsons, known as the Ghyll, a long Cumbrian homestead of gray stone and green slate.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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Two days later the fell behind the Ghyll was a scene of unusual animation.
A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892
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"Good keeping weather" was how the late Sid Cross, mine host for many years of the Old Dungeon Ghyll hotel in the valley below, would have described such conditions.
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Are the quarrels raging across the dinner tables of the north's best restaurants, from L'Enclume to Holbeck Ghyll, Hipping Hall to the Angel Inn, real or fattened up for the occasion?
Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'We're not the big buddies people think we are' Laura Barton 2010
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Tennis Court Wall may be a humble "pitch" in the maw of Moss Ghyll's cavernous cleft in Scafell Crag, but to rock climbers approaching its challenge, it is now pristine again.
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The late John Bulman, renowned landlord of the New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, worked for the national park.
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Take a plunge in the Lake District, Cumbria "Ghyll scrambling" in the Lake District involves mountain walking and rock climbing along a mountain stream.
Just get physical: active days out in Britain Dale Berning 2010
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Plenty of space for a few Scotts to sleep in that other half of the house, and then the next morning off to the other place that some of us were staying, namely a cottage in Sarnthwaite Ghyll I think it was called.
Easter day 1 jinty 2004
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