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Oglethorpe, continuing his pursuit at the heels of the rebels, arrived on the 17th in front of a village called Shap, where their rear was supposed to be, just before night-fall, in very bad weather.
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Harris, Thaddeus M 1838
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* "Shap" Curry (1896) - King Ranch - Kirvin, TX May 6, 1922
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* "Shap" Curry (1896) - King Ranch - Kirvin, TX May 6, 1922
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St Michael's in Shap, on the windy summit of the M6 in Cumbria, may now be unusable, with the cost of the damaged roof worsened by rain pouring into the partly Norman interior.
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Harron is 25 and only lives down the road in Shap; or did.
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Sleddale Hall, near the village of Shap, south of Penrith, has remained largely untouched since it featured in the 1987 comedy, which followed the hedonistic, alcohol-fuelled antics of a pair of out-of-work actors.
Withnail and I' farmhouse goes up for sale The Nag 2009
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It lacks even the debatable beauty of more elegant bits of the motorway network – the Chilterns cutting on the M40, the Shap moorlands on the M6, and the farmhouse trapped between the carriageways high on the M62.
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The fashionable interest in antiquities is also marked by an elegantly sparing sketch of Long Meg, near Shap Fell, the largest prehistoric circle in the north.
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"If you are travelling on the John O 'Groats route then you will definitely go through Shap – so i think it will be useful."
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The redundant telecoms building is perched high on Shap summit, off the A6, and could get a new lease of life as a camping barn for cyclists and fundraisers attempting the Land's End to John O 'Groats route.
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