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viewpoint, Pooley Bridge
locality:-   Pooley Bridge
civil parish:-   Barton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   viewpoint
coordinates:-   NY47002442 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY4724
10Km square:-   NY42

evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, The Mountains of Ullswater as seen from Pooley Bridge, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.
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p.109 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830. 
printed at top:-  "The Mountains of Ulswater: / as seen from Pooley Bridge."
printed at bottom:-  "Swarth Fell / Cawdale Moor / Winter Crag / Dove Crags / Hallen Fell, and Place Fell / Stone Cross Pike / Birk Fell / Dolly Waggon Pike / Nether Cove Head / Helvellyn High Man / Catchety Cam / Helvellyn Low Man / Herring Pike / Keppel Cove Head / Raise / Greenside / Gowbarrow"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1175.5
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, Mountains of Ullswater, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1834.
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Printed on p.113 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. 
printed at top:-  "MOUNTAINS OF ULLSWATER: / as seen from Pooley Bridge."
printed at bottom:-  "Swarth Fell / Cawdale Moor / Winter Crag / Dove Crags / Martindale Hause / Hallen Fell, and Place Fell / Stone Cross Pike / Birk Fell / Dolly Waggon Pike / Nether Cove Head / Helvellyn High Man / Catchety Cam / Helvellyn Low Man / Herring Pike / Keppel Cove Head / Raise / Greenside / Gowbarrow"
item:-  JandMN : 48.13
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view of mountains, Ullswater from Pooley Bridge, 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.12 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849. 
printed at bottom:-  "ULLSWATER: - / FROM POOLEY BRIDGE."
printed at top:-  "Barton Fell / Swarth Fell / Stile End / Winter Crag / (Martindale Hause) / Hartsop Fells / Hallen Fell (line 2) / Place Fell / Stone Cross Pike / Birk Fell / Dolly Waggon Pike / Nether Cove Head / Helvellyn High Man / Catchety Cam (line 2) / Helvellyn Low Man / Herring Pike (line 2) / Keppel Cove Head / Raise / (Greenside) / Gowbarrow / Dunmallet"
Looking SW; 115 degree view, S to ENE. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.8
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photograph
BYB99.jpg  View from the bridge to the lake.
(taken 4.1.2006)  

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