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Great Calva, Underskiddaw
Great Calva
civil parish:-   Underskiddaw (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Ireby (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   boundary feature
locality type:-   parish boundary feature
coordinates:-   NY29073119
1Km square:-   NY2931
10Km square:-   NY23
altitude:-   2265 feet
altitude:-   690m

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BPR24.jpg (taken 26.9.2008)  
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BPC17.jpg (taken 22.4.2008)  
evidence:-   old map:- Gents Mag 1747
placename:-  Calva Mountain
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, perspective view, Caudbeck Fells ie Caldbeck Fells, scale about 1+ miles to 1 inch, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1747.
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"Calva Mt."
knobbly hillocks; mountains 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 43
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Calva
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Grasmere from Red Bank Head, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.4 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.5
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Calva
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Grasmere and Rydal, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.
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Printed on p.15 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834.  "MOUNTAINS OF GRASMERE AND RYDAL: as seen from Red-Bank Head."
"Hammer Scar / Silver How / Ullskarth, Wythburn head / Helm Crag and Stile / Littledale Pike, Skiddaw / Raise Gap / Calva in Caldbeck Fells / Part of Helvellyn / Seat Sandal / Grisedale Hause / Great Rigg, Fairfield / Green-head Ghyll / Forest Side / Nab Scar / Scandale Fell / Rydal Park / Cawdale Moor / Loughrigg Fell"
item:-  JandMN : 48.4
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evidence:-   probably old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Calva
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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"Ca[ va]"
hill hachuring 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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evidence:-   outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:-  Calva
source data:-   Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Skiddaw, Cumberland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
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"... Calva ..."
item:-  JandMN : 28.8
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Calva
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Grasmere and Coniston - Mountains as seen from Redbank, Grasmere, and Mountains as seen a little beyond Tent Lodge on the Road from Coniston to Ulverstone, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 7 Calva in Skiddaw Forest ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.12
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Calva
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from Red Bank, Grasmere, and Mountains as seen a little beyond Tent-Lodge on the Road from Coniston to Ulverston, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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"... 7 Calva in Skiddaw Forest ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.5
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BVE74.jpg  Cairn.
(taken 8.8.2011)  
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BVE75.jpg  Shelter.
(taken 8.8.2011)  

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BVE77.jpg  View S.
(taken 8.8.2011)  
The view looks down the great gap in the mountains - St John's in the Vale, Thirlmere, etc.
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