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Dovenest Crag, Borrowdale
Dovenest Crag
Dove's Nest
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
locality type:-   cave
coordinates:-   NY25341162 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2511
10Km square:-   NY21


photograph
CDA94.jpg (taken 13.5.2015)  
photograph
CDA95.jpg (taken 13.5.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 75 2) 
placename:-  Dovenest 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.

hearsay:-  
The crag is a detached piece of mountain which has slid down the fell to its current position, which may not be stable! There are passages and caves where the slab leans against the mountain, one called Attic Cave.
The cave entrance is at the bottom of the south chimney; then there is a mountain rock climb in the dark; the exit is at the Attic Cave top centre of the face of the crag. This is not for the inexperienced.

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