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Riggindale, Bampton
Riggindale
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
coordinates:-   NY460117 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4611
10Km square:-   NY41


photograph
BJT68.jpg  Riggindale Crag and Riggindale, High Street, and Haweswater.
(taken 22.8.2005)  
photograph
BPV13.jpg  Hawes Water behind, from Long Stile.
(taken 17.11.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY41SE.jpg
hill hachuring; valley 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Riggendale
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p34, button  goto source
page 34:-  "..."
"Branstree, Harter Fell, Riggendale, High Street, Kidstay, and Whelter, are all grand mountains lying at the head of the lake [Hawes Water] ..."


photograph
CAD73.jpg (taken 24.3.2014)  
photograph
BZR01.jpg (taken 12.11.2013)  
photograph
BPV15.jpg  Head of Riggindale; Short Stile, Twopenny Crag, Sale Pot, etc.
(taken 17.11.2008)  
photograph
BOT61.jpg  Riggindale beyond the line of the crag.
(taken 4.3.2008)  

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