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| Elba Monument, Strickland Ketel | ||
| Elba Monument | ||
| Pitt Obelisk | ||
| civil parish:- | Strickland Ketel (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| locality type:- | monument | |
| locality type:- | obelisk | |
| coordinates:- | SD497951 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD4995 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD49 | |
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 BJW28.jpg (taken 23.9.2005)  BJW29.jpg "IN HONOUR OF WILLIAM PITT 'THE PILOT WHO WEATHERED THE STORM' ELBA ..." (taken 23.9.2005) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Burrow 1920s placename:- Ellergreen Obelisk |
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| source data:- | Road book, On the Road, Dunlop Pictorial Road Plans, volume V,
strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, irregular
scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co,
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s. EJB3Vg31.jpg "ELLERGREEN OBELISK" item:- private collection : 17 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Elba Monument |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "ELBA MONUMENT / / / STRICKLAND KETEL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76411 / SD4968895124" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Monument erected in 1814 by James Bateman of Tolson Hall. Roughly squared and coursed limestone on 2-stage plinth with ashlar dressings. A plaque (now missing) apparently stated:" ""In honour of William Pitt the Pilot that weathered the storm" Elba." "James Bateman of Tolson Hall intended to inscribe these words on this monument, when he built it in 1814. But owing to Napoleon's escape from Elba the inscription was not engraved. A century later this tablet was placed here in 1914 by Charles Cropper of Ellergreen." "The monument stands on a mound known as monument hill North West of Kendal and has landscape value." |
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| hearsay:- |
John Bateman erected this iimediately after the Battle of Waterloo. |
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