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Priest's Crag, Matterdale
Priest's Crag
civil parish:-   Matterdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY42882305 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4223
10Km square:-   NY42

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 66 5) 
placename:-  Priest's 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:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Priests Cragg
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.
image CL13P026, button  goto source
Page 26:-  "... At a little distance from the chapel [All Saints, Watermillock] is an hill, commonly known by the name of the Priests Cragg: it was formerly covered with wood of different kinds, and was about 120 years ago the common resort of the country people for hunting, gathering nuts, and other diversions: these they put in practice on the Sunday, to the great disturbance of the congregation, ... ... [the disturbances] came to the ears of Rainbow Bishop of Carlisle. The Bishop upon this, with concurrence of the Duke of Norfolk, ordered the wood to be cut down: this put an end to the profanations there carried on, ..."

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