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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WASDALE HEAD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BEES (St.)	Cumberland	Wasdale-Head, and the chapelries of Nether Wasdale and Eskdale. Acres, 71,332; of which 2,072 are water. Real	Imperial
  Eskdale and Wasdale Head	Cumberland	Eskdale and Wasdale Head , township, St Bees par., W. Cumberland, 17,419 ac. (612 water), pop. 535.	Bartholomew
  Kirk Fell	Cumberland	Kirk Fell , mountain, Cumberland, between head of Ennerdale and head of Wasdale, 11 miles SW. of Keswick, alt. 2631 ft.	Bartholomew
  Mosedale	Cumberland	from Wasdale Head to Black Sail Pass and the Pillar; the name is of frequent occurrence in the Lake District.	Bartholomew
  Orkney	Orkney	Orkney, a group of islands and islets of the eastern part of the N-coast of Scotland, and forming a	Groome
  Peasgill	Cumberland	Peasgill , romantic ravine, Cumberland, near Wasdale Head, on NW. side of Lingmell.	Bartholomew
  Sprinkling Tarn	Cumberland	lake, Cumberland, 3½ miles NE. of Wasdale Head; is 1960 ft. above sea-level, and has good trout fishing.	Bartholomew
  Stromness	Orkney	Stromness, a town and a parish in the SW of Pomona, Orkney. The town, skirting the W side of a	Groome
  Styhead Pass	Cumberland	mountain, between the head of the Seathwaite branch of Borrowdale and head of Wasdale; is 1600 ft. above sea-level.	Bartholomew
  Taylor Gill Force	Cumberland	Taylor Gill Force , cataract, near Seathwaite, between Keswick and Wasdale Head, Cumberland.	Bartholomew
  Wasdale Head	Cumberland	Wasdale Head , eccl. dist., St Bees par., Cumberland, 10 miles NE. of Ravenglass, pop. 52; comprises the upper part of Wasdale	Bartholomew
  WASDALE-HEAD	Cumberland	WASDALE-HEAD , a township-chapelry in St. Bees parish, Cumberland; comprising the upper part of Wasdale, 10 miles NE of Ravenglass	Imperial

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