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Great How, St John's Castlerigg etc
Great How
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NY31381874 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3118
10Km square:-   NY31

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Great How
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 117:-  "..."
"This valley is inclosed on every side by high and rugged mountains; that on the right hand called Great How, is tolerably variegated with wood, as far as Mr Leathe's inclosures and house. ..."

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Great How, The
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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page 13:-  "... The Great How, which is on the"
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page 14:-  "Dalehead side of the water, is here a principal feature, and is finely diversified with rock and wood: ..."

evidence:-   outline view:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from the West Side of Thirlmere, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
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Opposite p.69 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.  "MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THIRLMERE."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-  "1 Raven Crag, 2 Castlerigg, 3 Blancathra vulgariter Saddleback, 4 Great How, 5 Green Crag, 6, Great Dod, 7 Part of Helvellyn."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.10
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evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35
source data:-   Print, engraving, Thirlmere Bridge, Looking North, Cumberland, by Thomas Allom, engraved by W le Petit, 1833.
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"Thirlmere Bridge, Looking North, Cumberland"
item:-  JandMN : 96.14
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hearsay:-  
This area is the setting of The Shadow of a Crime, by Hall Caine.

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