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| Gavel Pike, Patterdale | ||
| Gavel Pike | ||
| civil parish:- | Patterdale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| coordinates:- | NY37331344 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3713 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY31 | |
| altitude:- | 2572 feet | |
| altitude:- | 784m | |
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 BOE35.jpg Lord's Seat is the broad eminence left of Cold Cove, above is Gavel Pike, and above that a summit on The Cape at the back of St Sunday's Crag. (taken 11.9.2007)  Click to enlarge BVL44.jpg (taken 26.9.2011) |
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| evidence:- | perhaps descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) placename:- Gavel Neese |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto sourcePage 87:- "... a ridge running from the summit of a mountain steeply downwards: as, Gavel neese ..." |
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