HISTORY IN A LAKE
Legend says that a drowned village at the bottom of Semmer Water in *»orth Yorkshire. %5+v 0 inhabitrfnts treated a traveller cruelt y. the story goes, and he Piffiyflftuded the waters to rise—a legend wmmon to many lakes and tarns, such ? r arn in North Lancashire. jl«e level, ot Semmer Water has now : PWJ lowered for draining purposes, and elements and household tools have WV ?und . * n the beds of streams lead- _ 8 from it, along with the bones of lath?? red deer. It is now believed existed as an ancient British of Lake Dwellings.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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99HISTORY IN A LAKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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