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Burtness Comb, Buttermere
Burtness Comb
Birkness Comb
civil parish:-   Buttermere (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
locality type:-   combe
coordinates:-   NY175146
1Km square:-   NY1714
10Km square:-   NY11

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BLY19.jpg (taken 24.4.2006)  
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BXM44.jpg (taken 6.10.2012)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 69 10) 
placename:-  Burtness Comb
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:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P131, button  goto source
Page 131:-  "... large hollow craters scooped in their bosoms, once the seeming seats of raging liquid fire, though at present overflowing with the purest water, that foams down the craggy brows; ..."
image WS21P134, button  goto source
Page 134:-  "... Four spiral towering mountains, ... The more southern is, by the dalesmen, from its form, called Hay-rick; the more pyramidal High-crag; the third High-style; and the fourth, from its ferruginous colour, Red-pike. Between the second and third there is a large crater, that, from the parched colour of the conical mountains,"
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  tree; scots pine
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, head of Buttermere lake, Comb Crags above Burtness Comb, Buttermere, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0428.jpg
internegative at lower left:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS82
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Marr 1916
placename:-  Burtness Combe
source data:-   Photograph, halftone print, Burtness Combe, Buttermere, Cumberland, 1916.
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MA1214.jpg
item:-  JandMN : 173.22
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BQL62.jpg  High Crag, Burtness Comb, High Stile.
(taken 1.5.2009)  
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BVH03.jpg  Burtness Comb, and High Crag, etc.
(taken 17.8.2011)  
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BXM41.jpg (taken 6.10.2012)  
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BXM42.jpg (taken 6.10.2012)  
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