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| Birker Fell, Eskdale | ||
| Birker Fell | ||
| Bircherfell | ||
| civil parish:- | Eskdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| locality type:- | fell | |
| coordinates:- | SD173975 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD1797 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD19 | |
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 BLZ14.jpg (taken 24.4.2006) |
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 BLZ08.jpg About 1911. courtesy of the King George IV, Eskdale Green. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 placename:- Birker |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes,
Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to
1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies,
Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick,
Cumberland, et al, 1833. OT02SD19.jpg item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Birker Fell |
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| source data:- | Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John
Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. GAR2SD29.jpg "Birker Fell" hill hachuring item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 placename:- Birker Moor item:- bird; skylark; eagle |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 111:- "... crossing [the Duddon] at Ulpha Kirk, and getting upon the moor that way. As soon as the enclosures are past, up springs the lark, and freely run the rills, and keen is the air; and ghostlike are the mountains that appear by degrees above the high foreground of the moor. It is a rare pleasure in the lake district to meet with the lark. It is only on a very wide expanse of moorland that it can happen; for in the valleys the birds of prey allow no songsters. The eagles are gone (or nearly), and few ravens are left among the crags: but there are hawks domineering in every vale; so that those who would hear the lark must go out to such places as Birker Moor.- The mountain group in front is that which has been remarked upon before ... the whole line, from that peak to Hardknot, is very fine in all lights. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bogg 1898 placename:- Birker Fell |
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| source data:- | Photograph, halftone print, Glen Ulpha and Birker Fell, Ulpha, Cumberland, by G H
Rodwell, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street,
Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898. click to enlargeBGG184.jpg Included on p.215 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. item:- JandMN : 231.84 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | outline view:- Jenkinson 1875 placename:- Birker Moor |
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| source data:- | Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Scawfell Pike, Cumberland,
by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London,
1875. click to enlargeJk01E3.jpg "... Birker Moor ..." item:- JandMN : 28.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BOR99.jpg Gravestone, just outside the door to St John's Church, Ulpha:- "In Memory of / JAMES CROSBIE JENKINSON, / of Whitehaven, / Who perished on Birker Moor / during the 'pelting of the pitiless / storm' on the 1st. of January 1826, / aged 17 Years. / ..." (taken 27.2.2008) |
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