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High Raise, Martindale
High Raise
civil parish:-   Martindale (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NY44811346
1Km square:-   NY4413
10Km square:-   NY41
altitude:-   2631 feet
altitude:-   802m


photograph
BTS71.jpg (taken 20.10.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 20 1) 
placename:-  High Raise
placename:-  Raise, High
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:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, Mountains North East of Windermere, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.
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Printed on p.99 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834.  "MOUNTAINS NORTH-EAST OF WINDERMERE, as seen from Bowness."
Mountains are listed:-  "High Raise / Ullskarth, Wythburn Head / Loughrigg Fell / Stile / Raise Gap / Nab Scar / Great Rigg / Fairfield / Rydal Park / Wansfell Pike / Red Screes / Cawdale Moor / Threshthwaite Mouth / High Street / Froswick / Ill Bell / Yoak / Applethwaite Fell"
item:-  JandMN : 48.12
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