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COPELAND FOREST, a moorish mountainous tract in the SW of Cumberland; between Ennerdale-water and Wast-water, from 3 to 9 miles E of Egremont. It includes numerous fells and peaks; and has an altitude, at the Pillar-fell, of 2, 893 feet.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a moorish mountainous tract" (ADL Feature Type: "shrublands") |
| Administrative units: | Cumberland Ancient County |
| Place: | Copeland |
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