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Bannerdale Crags, Mungrisdale
Bannerdale Crags
locality:-   Bannerdale
civil parish:-   Mungrisdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY33432930 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3329
10Km square:-   NY32


photograph
BWE02.jpg (taken 26.3.2012)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 57 5) 
placename:-  Bannerdale Crags
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-   perhaps old map:- Gents Mag 1747
placename:-  Scaldknot Mount
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, perspective view, Caudbeck Fells ie Caldbeck Fells, scale about 1+ miles to 1 inch, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1747.
image
GM1405.jpg
"Scaldknot Mount"
knobbly hillocks; mountains 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 43
Image © Carlisle Library

hearsay:-  
The rocky face is 700 feet high. It is not considered dangerous by the experts;
"... a little perseverance will ensure a broken neck for the foolhardy one nine times out of ten"

Baron 1925

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