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Skirtful Crags, Windermere lake
Skirtful Crags
Skirtful Crag
site name:-   Windermere lake
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   island
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   SD38328905
1Km square:-   SD3889
10Km square:-   SD38


photograph
BPD92.jpg (taken 12.5.2008)  
photograph
BYE48.jpg (taken 12.4.2103)  
A group of rocks and 'islands'.

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Lan 8 7) 
placename:-  Skirtful 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.
OS County Series (Wmd 37 14) 

evidence:-   old map:- Prior 1874 map 1
placename:-  Skiesful Crags
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1874.
image  click to enlarge
PI03M1.jpg
"Skiesful Crags"
shown as a crag on the shore by hill hachures 
item:-  private collection : 133.1
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