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Bleaberry Crag, Patterdale
Bleaberry Crag
locality:-   Patterdale Common (?) 
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY357152
1Km square:-   NY3515
10Km square:-   NY31

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 12 13) 
placename:-  Bleaberry 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 (4th edn 1830) 
placename:-  Bleaberry Pike
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains of Patterdale as seen from the Slate Quarry on Place Fell, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.
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p.137 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830.  "The Mountains of Patterdale: / as seen from the Slate Quarry on Place Fell."
"Place Fell / Hartshop Dod / Cawdale Moor / Kirkstone Pass / Red Screes / Deepdale Park / Blease / Birks / Dolly Waggon Pike / Eagle Crag / Bleaberry Pike / Helvellyn Pile / Hall Bank / Raise / Greenside / Herring Pike / Glenridding Dod / Glencoin Fell"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1175.10
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Bleaberry Crag
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Mountains of Patterdale from the Slate Quarry on Place Fell, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.14 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.9
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Patterdale, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.
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Printed on p.11 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834.  "THE MOUNTAINS OF PATTERDALE: as seen from the Slate Quarry on Place Fell."
"Place Fell / Hartsop Dod / Cawdale Moor / Kirkstone Pass / Red Screes / Deepdale Park / Blease / Birks / Dolly Waggon Pike / Eagle Crag / Bleaberry Crag / Helvellyn Pile / Hall Bank / Raise / Greenside / Herring Pike / Glenridding Dod / Glencoin Fell"
item:-  JandMN : 48.3
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evidence:-   outline view:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from Lanthwaite Wood Crummock Water, 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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Plate, opposite p.104 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau. 
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-  "1 Whiteless Pike, 2 Honister Crag, 3 Green Gable, 4 Great End, 5 Great Gable / Rannerdale Knott (beneath), 6 Scawfell Pike, 7 Kirkfell / Scarf Gap (below), 8 High Crag, 9 High Stile, 10 Bleaberry Crag, 11 Red Pike, 12 Melbreak."
"MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM LANTHWAITE WOOD CRUMMOCK WATER."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.13
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evidence:-   outline view:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Bleaberry Fell
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen on the Keswick Road approaching Ullswater, 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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Plate, opposite p.104 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.  "MOUNTAINS SEEN ON THE KESWICK ROAD APPROACHING ULLSWATER."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-  "1 Place Fell, 2 Birk Fell, 3 Red Screes, 4 Scandale Head, 5 Dove Crag (Hartsop), 6 Birks, 7 Rydal Head, 8 St. Sundays Crag, 9, Fairfield, 10 Glenridding Dod, 11 Dolly Waggon Pike, 12 Bleaberry Fell, 13 Striding Edge, 14 Herring Pike, 15 Gowbarrow Park."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.15
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Bleaberry Crag
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Ullswater - Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ullswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ullswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 10 Bleaberry Crag ... 15 Bleaberry Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.8
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Bleaberry Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ulleswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ulleswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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"... 10 Bleaberry Crag ... 15 Bleaberry Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.15
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