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Buckbarrow Crag, Longsleddale
Buckbarrow Crag
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY48260753 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4807
10Km square:-   NY40

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BPF83.jpg (taken 24.5.2008)  
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CAK23.jpg (taken 19.4.2014)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 2) 
placename:-  Buckbarrow Crag
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 postcard:- 
source data:-   Postcard, sepia coloured photograph, Longsleddale, Westmorland, about 1900s.
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item:-  private collection : 346
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evidence:-   probably descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Crowbarrow
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P166, button  goto source
Page 166:-  "... [from Gatescarth] ... You enter Long-Sleddale between two shattered rocky mountains. That on the left, Crowbarrow, is not less terrible to look up at, when under it, than any rock in Barrowside or Borrowdale, and it has covered a much larger space with ruins. ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Housman 1800
placename:-  Crowbarrow
placename:-  Backbarrow
source data:-   Guide book, Descriptive Tour, and Guide to the Lakes, Caves, Mountains ..., by John Housman, published by F Jollie, Carlisle, Cumberland and C Law, Ave Maria Lane, London, 1800; published 1800-21.
Page 71:-  "... The dale then contracts a little, and towards its head the rocks become eminently conspicuous; one of which, on the right, called Crowbarrow, or Backbarrow, is truly awful. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Hodgson 1828
placename:-  Buckbarrow Crag
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 4 sheets mounted together on linen and rolled, Plan of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1.25 inches to 1 mile, by Thomas Hodgson, engraved by W R Gardner, Harpur Street, London, published by Thomas Hodgson, Lancaster, and perhaps by C Smith, 172 Strand, London,1828.
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map courtesy of Mark Cropper
"BUCKBARROW CRAG"
item:-  private collection : 371
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evidence:-   old print:- Watson 1894
source data:-   View of upper Longsleddale including Sadgill, Goat Scar and Buckbarrow, in The Annals of a Quiet Valley, by A Country Parson edited by John Watson, published by J M Dent and Co, London, 1894.
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"BERTHA NEWCOMBE"
item:-  Kendal Library : 5
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evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  fox; hunting; fox hound
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1899 part 2 p.551  "[The Shepherd's Year] ..."
"... No fewer than seven foxes have been known to be afoot in the hinterland surrounding Buckbarrow earth at one time, within a radius of half a mile. The "earth-stoppers," it may be remarked, are often disappointed of a view of the hunting after all. I knew one man of over seventy climb from Sacgill (sic) to the top of Buckbarrow before daylight. Arrived there, he stopped all the holes he could find, lit a small fire of peat, and stayed till nightfall, with his two dogs for company. This was on a day when February rain-clouds closed thick about the fells, and his position could only have been one of great discomfort. Meantime the huntsman, in a farmyard half a dozen miles away, was disconsolately wandering about alone, for on the previous day, when the hounds were walking across the mist-piled division between two valleys, the majority of them had bolted on a hot scent, and could not be traced. ..."
evidence:-   textbook:- EPNS Westmorland 1967
placename:-  Buckbarrowe
source data:-   Book, The Place Names of Westmorland, two volumes, by A H Smith, published for the English Place Name Society by Cambridge University Press, Cambridgeshire, 1967
evidence:-   parish register:- KendalRO : WPR85 Register of Burials
placename:-  Buckbarrow
source data:-   Buried at St Mary's Church, 7 December 1881:-  "A poor man unknown - a tramp found dead from exposure on Buckbarrow"
 Buckbarrow Crag: climb routes
 Buckbarrow Crag: climb 20130709
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 Several climbs are shown in the Journal of the FRCC.

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CAK24.jpg (taken 19.4.2014)  
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BPU98.jpg (taken 17.11.2008)  
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BMV06.jpg (taken 8.10.2006)  
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BJH34.jpg (taken 21.12.2004)  

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BJJ02.jpg (taken 31.12.2004)  
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BIQ32.jpg  below Tarn Crag
(taken 24.4.2004)  
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