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| Gimmer Crag, Great Langdale | ||
| Gimmer Crag | ||
| site name:- | Langdale Pikes | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| coordinates:- | NY27680692 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2706 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY20 | |
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 Click to enlarge BRW49.jpg Pike of Stickle and Gimmer Crag. (taken 11.11.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 2) placename:- Gimmer Crag |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1809 placename:- Gimmer Crag |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Gimmer Crag in Langdale, Langdale Pikes, Westmorland,
by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman,
Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809. click to enlargeGN0361.jpg Plate 61 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. printed in introductory pages to set of prints:- "Number 61. It is the opinion of several people of acknowledged taste, that the mountains of Langdale afford to the eye, from many parts of the vale, a greater variety of fine forms than the mountains surrounding any other valley here. One of the conical-topped pikes, and a grand surface of rock called Gimmer Crag, are the principal features of the scene before us. The drawing was made at a little distance from Wall End, which is about nine miles from Ambleside." printed at bottom:- "GIMMER CRAG IN LANGDALE. / Published Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green." item:- Armitt Library : A6637.61 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1810 (plate 54) placename:- Gimmer Crag |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Gimmer Crag, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by William Green,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1809. click to enlargeGN1254.jpg Plate 54 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. printed at bottom:- "GIMMER CRAG IN LANGDALE. / Drawn &Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, Augst. 1st. 1809." watermark:- "J WHATMAN / 1813" item:- Armitt Library : A6641.54 Image © see bottom of page |
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