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Base Brown, Borrowdale
Base Brown
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NY22511146
1Km square:-   NY2211
10Km square:-   NY21
altitude:-   2119 feet
altitude:-   646m


photograph
BSU08.jpg (taken 17.5.2010)  
photograph
BNG59.jpg  From the black lead mines.
(taken 26.2.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Bays Brown
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
image
FD02NY20.jpg
"Bays Brown"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:-  Base Brown
source data:-   Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Scawfell Pike, Cumberland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
image  click to enlarge
Jk01E3.jpg
"... Base Brown ..."
item:-  JandMN : 28.9
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BLY02.jpg  From the road to Seathwaite.
(taken 24.4.2006)  
photograph
BQO06.jpg (taken 12.5.2009)  


photograph
CGA86.jpg  Each of the terraces is the remains of a pyroclastic flow.
(taken 7.5.2017)  

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