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viewpoint, Measand Beck
locality:-   Measandbecks (now drowned) 
locality:-   Measand
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   viewpoint
coordinates:-   NY487154 (now drowned) 
1Km square:-   NY4815
10Km square:-   NY41

evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view of mountains, Hawes Water from Measand Beck, drawn by Mr Binns, Halifax, engraved by Mr Jewitt, Headington, Oxfordshire, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1849.
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Opposite p.16 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849. 
printed at bottom:-  "HAWES WATER: - / FROM MEASAND BECK."
printed at top:-  "Wallow Crag / Naddle Forest (the lower part, which stretches into the lake, is called Gurnes.) / Harter Fell / Riggindale (line 2) / Bleak-How Crag (l.4) / Castle Crag (line 3) / High Street / Whelter Crag (line 2) / Kidsey Pike / Lad Crag / Measand End / Knotts / Blennerhasset / (Fordendale) / (Birker Gill)"
Looking SW; 180 degree view, ESE to WNW. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.10
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