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Castlerigg Fell, St John's Castlerigg etc
Castlerigg Fell
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   fell
coordinates:-   NY28891945 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2819
10Km square:-   NY21
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 15) 
placename:-  Castlerigg Fell
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:-   old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96) 
source data:-   Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.
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In miles 20 to 27, Cumberland. 
Mountains on the left of the road for 7 miles. 
item:-  JandMN : 22
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evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  lightning; sheep
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1806 p.576  "... Five sheep were killed on Castle-rig-fell, near Keswick. One of them had the wool stripped off one side, from the head to the tail. The electric matter had taken a circular direction, and turned up the soil as with a spade."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 156:-  "... Garnets are found imbedded in some of the rocks on Castlerigg Fell and Great Gable. ..."
"... An amygdaloid rock, containing nodules of calcareous spar, and sometimes of agate, opal or calcedony, is met with in several places; as ... Castlerigg Fell near Keswick ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Castlerigg
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Castlerigg"
hill hachuring 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   outline view:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  Castlerigg
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from the West Side of Thirlmere, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
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Plate opposite p.69 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.  "MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THIRLMERE."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-  "1 Raven Crag, 2 Castlerigg, 3 Blancathra vulgariter Saddleback, 4 Great How, 5 Green Crag, 6, Great Dod, 7 Part of Helvellyn."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.10
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