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-|[[18 August]] – The last service at Holy Trinity Church in [[Mardale Green]], Westmorland, is given by the Rev. W.H. Cormack. The congregation exceeds the church's capacity of 75, and overflows to several thousand outside. Those on church grounds listen via loud speakers, attached to the church tower. The following year the church is demolished, and ancient yew trees are cut down prior to flooding the Mardale Valley for the Manchester Corporation's newly constructed [[Haweswater]] dam and reservoir.<ref>Berry, ''Mardale Revisited'', p.17</ref>
+|▶ [[18 August]] – The last service at Holy Trinity Church in [[Mardale Green]], Westmorland, is given by the Rev. W.H. Cormack. The congregation exceeds the church's capacity of 75, and overflows to several thousand outside. Those on church grounds listen via loud speakers, attached to the church tower. The following year the church is demolished, and ancient yew trees are cut down prior to flooding the Mardale Valley for the Manchester Corporation's newly constructed [[Haweswater]] dam and reservoir.<ref>Berry, ''Mardale Revisited'', p.17</ref>
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+|Holy Trinity Church is demolished and the bodies of those interred in the churchyard at Holy Trinity are exhumed, most of which are reburied in separate cemetery to the east of St. Michael's Church in Shap.<ref>Berry, ''Mardale Revisited'', p.19</ref>
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 ==References==
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 ==Sources==
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 *Berry, Geoffrey (1984). ''Mardale Revisited: The Story of Haweswater''. Kendal: Westmorland Gazette.
 *Robinson, Jeremy Rowan. ''Managing the Lake District National Park: The first 60 years''. Kendal: Lake District National Park.
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