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Langdale Fell, Great Langdale
Langdale Fell
locality:-   Great Langdale
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   fell
coordinates:-   NY26970695 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2706
10Km square:-   NY20

photograph
BQL59.jpg  From Bow Fell.
(taken 20.4.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 2) 
placename:-  Langdale Fell
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:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT01P155, button  goto source
Page 155:-  "The SECOND division [of slate rocks] comprehends the mountains of Eskdale, Wasdale, Ennerdale, Borrowdale, Langdale, Grasmere, Patterdale, Martindale, Mardale, and some adjacent places; including the two highest mountains of the district, Scawfell and Helvellyn, as well as the Old Man at Coniston. All our fine towering crags belong to it; and most of the cascades among the lakes fall over it. There are indeed some lofty precipices in the former division; ..."
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evidence:-   perhaps old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Langdale Fells, including Langdale Pikes, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1860s?
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AS0404.jpg
"from Sawrey Tarn"
page number  "4"
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.60.4
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evidence:-   perhaps old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Langdale Fell etc? Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, about 1849.
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AS0121.jpg
"to Strawberry bank / Skelgill Lane / Aug 24. 1849"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.487.21
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0640.jpg
Mickleden Beck in the valley bottom; Pike of Stickle on the right, Stake Pass vaguely recognizable towards the left. 
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS303
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