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Keppel Gate, Isle of Man
Keppel Gate, Isle of Man〔''TT Special'' page 15 Editor G.S.Davison 16th June 1933 "....The view is perfect; not only can we see ''Kate's Cottage'' at ''Keppel Gate'', but also the outline of the ''Snaefell Hotel''...."〕 along with the nearby Kate's Cottage are near to the 34th TT Milestone road-side marker used for the Snaefell Mountain Course situated on the primary A18 Mountain Road in the parish of Kirk Onchan in the Isle of Man.
In a 1967 interview with Bob Currie of ''Motor Cycle'', former TT rider Howard R. Davies, who also manufactured HRD Motorcycles, stated that Keppel Gate was originally situated at the side of ''Kate's Cottage'', closing-off the mountain road, and the corner now known as Keppel Gate was originally termed as ''Clark's Corner'', named after historic TT rider R.O. Clark, where he dropped his Levis in 1920.〔''Motor Cycle'' 15 June 1967, Diamond TT number, pp.798-801. Flashbacks over 60 years. Howard R. Davies of HRD Motorcycles interviewed by Bob Currie. "See that shot () of Kate's Cottage, with the gate across the road? That was Keppel Gate, a very real gate as also was the East Mountain Gate, near where the Mountain Box now stands. Nowadays the left-hander above Kate's is called Keppel Gate but that is wrong. That is (or was) Clark's Corner, where R.O. Clark dropped his Levis two-fifty while lying second in the 1920 Junior TT. I could tell you stories about those Mountain gates. It's quite true that, very often, the first man over during the early morning practices had to get off and open the gates when the marshall had failed to get up in time. The Mountain road was narrow at the best of times, but it narrowed still more to pass through the gates. Naturally, the gate-posts were a danger and, anyway, we thought they were an eyesore. So one year Jack Watson-Bourne and a couple more sneaked up to Keppel during the night, uprooted the post and left it, tied in a blue ribbon, in the Sefton Hotel! ". Accessed 20 June 2015〕
The left-hander in the direction of the TT course demarks the start of the steep descent off the Mountain towards the finish line in Douglas a few miles away, and the transition from moorland grazing to arable farmland at a lower altitude.
==Origin of Name==
The name Keppel 〔''Place Names in the Isle of Man'' page 126 by George Broderick ISBN 978-3-484-40130-3, "1851 Kippal's Gate, 1956 Keppel Gate....'big-trunk, stock, post hill, or looked like a tree-stump' ON keppa-fjall." 〕 originates from the Scandinavian for ''Kappafjall'' (The champion or hero's mountain). This is probably the Scandinavian name for the nearby Slieau Meayll or Slieau Ree mountains.〔Manx Note Book〕
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