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Cat Crag, Borrowdale
Cat Crag
locality:-   Low Crag
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY26851950 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NY2619
10Km square:-   NY21
references:-   Clarke 1787

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Catt Cragg
item:-  wild catplacename, Cat Crag
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 73:-  "..."
"... We next pass the wooded rocks, Catt-Gill and Catt-Cragg; so names I suppose from the wild cats which inhabit there; ..."

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