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Birkett Edge, Bassenthwaite
Birkett Edge
site name:-   Bakestall
civil parish:-   Bassenthwaite (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NY26993099 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2630
10Km square:-   NY23


photograph
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BVE85.jpg  and Dead Crags.
(taken 8.8.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 56 2) 
placename:-  Birkett Edge
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.

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