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Castle Crag, Mardale
Castle Crag
Crag Castle
site name:-   Birks Crag
locality:-   Mardale
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY46941277
1Km square:-   NY4612
10Km square:-   NY41


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BZW44.jpg (taken 10.2.2014)  
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BZW45.jpg (taken 10.2.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 20 2) 
placename:-  Castle Crag
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:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Castle Crag
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Hawes Water from Measand Beck, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.16 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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O80E09.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.10
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evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Castle Crag
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Castle Crag, Mardale, Bampton, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 550, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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HMW024.jpg
On p.32 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "CASTLE CRAG : MARDALE / IN THE PARISH OF BAMPTON"
RCHME no. Wmd, Bampton 68 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.24
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Castle Crag
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Haws and Wastwater - Mountains as seen from Burn-Banks near the Foot of Hawes Water, and Mountains as seen near Nether Wastdale at the First Bridge on the road to Wast-Water, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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BC08E6.jpg
"... Castle Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.21
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Castle Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from Burn Banks near the Foot of Hawes Water, and Mountains as seen near Strands in Wastdale at the First bridge on the Road to Wast Water, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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BC02E8.jpg
"... Castle Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.12
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BLO66.jpg (taken 25.1.2006)  

hearsay:-  
A party of border reivers were expected to pass through Mardale to cross either Nan Bield Pass or Gatescarth Pass into the heart of Lakeland. Bowmen from Kendal laid a trap, stationing themselves on the rocky ground around Castle Crag. Their volleys of arrows killed all the raiders, who were buried on the hill.
Kendal bowmen were famed at the Battle of Agincourt:-
"These were the bows of Kendale bold / Who fierce will fight and never flee"

personal
person:-   border reiver
 : 
place:-   burial place

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