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Tarn Crags, Mungrisdale
Tarn Crags
locality:-   Bowscale Fell
civil parish:-   Mungrisdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY33503116 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3331
10Km square:-   NY33


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BPC97.jpg (taken 2.5.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 57 1) 
placename:-  Tarn Crags
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:- Gents Mag 1747
placename:-  Tarn Craigs
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, perspective view, Caudbeck Fells ie Caldbeck Fells, scale about 1+ miles to 1 inch, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1747.
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"Tarn Craigs"
crags 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 43
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag 1747
placename:-  Tarn Craigs
source data:-   Map, perspective view, Caudbeck Fells ie Caldbeck Fells, scale about 1+ miles to 1 inch, and descriptive text, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, November 1747.
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Page 523:-  "... Bouscale-tarn, ... so strangely surrounded with a more eminent amphitheatrical ridge of quarry rocks, that it is excluded the benefit of the sun for at least four months, in the middle of winter; ..."

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