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Lamplugh Fell, Lamplugh
Lamplugh Fell
civil parish:-   Lamplugh (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   fell
coordinates:-   NY10091913 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1019
10Km square:-   NY11


photograph
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BQJ23.jpg  High Pen and Low Pen, Lamplugh Fell.
(taken 1.4.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 62 15) 
placename:-  Lamplugh 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.
image
OG96Bm05.jpg
In mile 5, Cumberland.  "Fells"
hills to the right of the road. 
item:-  JandMN : 22
Image © see bottom of page

hearsay:-  
It is said that once:-
"A squirrel could hop from tree to tree, / From Lamplugh Fells to Moresby."

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