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Lover’s Leap, Dovedale
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Tom
April 12, 2019
Hiking
The only ascent/descent on the Dovedale trail up to Milldale.
Jane Sherwin
June 4, 2022
Hiking
The stunning limestone promontory of Lover’s Leap is accessed by a set of steps built by Italian prisoners of war from the Second World War. The rock is so-called because a young woman who believed her lover to have been killed in the Napoleonic Wars threw herself from the crag into the ravine below. Her skirt caught in a tree on the slopes as she fell, however, and she survived, later to discover that her lover was actually still alive. letsgopeakdistrict.co.uk/listing/dovedale
Jessica Outdoors
October 9, 2019
Hiking
Spotted just beside the river about head height.
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