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| Allen Crags, Borrowdale | ||
| Allen Crags | ||
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| coordinates:- | NY23660854 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2308 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY20 | |
| altitude:- | 2575 feet | |
| altitude:- | 785m | |
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 Click to enlarge BRM68.jpg (taken 14.9.2009)  BNG86.jpg Yellow rocks at the top. (taken 26.2.2007) |
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| evidence:- | outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) placename:- Hindside |
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| source data:- | Print, woodcut outline view, A Group of Mountains, seen from
Helvellyn, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830. click to enlargeOT2E09.jpg Printed on p.63 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. "A GROUP OF MOUNTAINS, Seen from Helvellyn, looking to the South-West." "Holm Fell / Old Man - Coniston Fell / Wetherlam / Carrs, or Scars / Gray Friar / Black Combe / Harrison Stickle / Crinkle Crags / Bowfell / Hanging Knot / Scawfell Pike / Hindside / Great-end Crag / Glaramara / Great Gable / Green Gable / Kirkfell / Pillar Fell / Honister, and High Crag / High Stile / Dalehead, and Red Pike / Hindscarth, and Robinson / Blake Fell / Witeless Pike / Grasmoor / Ill Crags / Causey Pike / Grisedale Pike" item:- JandMN : 48.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) placename:- Hindside |
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| source data:- | Engraving, outline view of mountains, Windermere looking towards the West from the
Road between Troutbeck and Bowness, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite
p.4 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849. click to enlargeO80E03.jpg item:- Armitt Library : A1180.4 Image © see bottom of page |
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