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Scandale Head, Lakes
Scandale Head
locality:-   Scandale
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
coordinates:-   NY38060983
1Km square:-   NY3809
10Km square:-   NY30
SummaryText:-   modern maps show this as the hill top; the OS County series shows it as the dale head.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 19 10) 
placename:-  Scandale Head
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:- Martineau 1855
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.
image  click to enlarge
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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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