Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Great Gable, Nether Wasdale

Great Gable, Nether Wasdale

Great Gable

civil parish:-

Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)

civil parish:-

Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

hill

coordinates:-

NY21101034

1Km square:-

NY2110

10Km square:-

NY21

altitude:-

2949 feet

altitude:-

899m

BUX33.jpg (taken 4.7.2011)
photograph

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evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 74 8)
placename:- Great Gable
placename:- Gable, Great

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 painting:- Green 1790s-1820s (1822)

source data:-

Painting, watercolour, Great Gable and Wast Water from Overbeck Bridge, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1822.

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item:- Dove Cottage : 2010.57.1
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evidence:-

old text:- Green 1810
placename:- Gable

source data:-

Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.

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page 90:- "..."
"Mountains frequently appear high or low proportionately to the quantity of surface disclosed to the eye; thus, Gable, which is only outtopped by Scho-fell, from the highest houses at Wastdale Head, does not appear a high mountain, because a line drawn from the eye of the spectator to its summit will subtend with the surface of the mountain a very acute angle, perhaps not more than ten degrees; and were it not for perspective diminution and atmospheric density, Gable would not appear higher than any other moun-"
page 91:- "[moun]tain, having its altitude in any part of the line drawn from the eye to the summit of Gable."
"Ascend from this place to Sty Head, which is a great height, and here Gable, displaying more superficies, appears much higher than it does from the houses; but rise to the top of Sprinkling, and it will appear to the spectator's horizon much higher than it did even from the Sty; though the Sty is perhaps not more than half the perpendicular height of Sprinkling above the level of the valley."

evidence:-

old print:- Green 1814 (plate 44)

source data:-

Print, tinted soft ground etching, Wast Water from the Road, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.

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Plate 44 in Sixty Small Prints.
printed at top right:- "44"
printed at bottom:- "WAST WATER FROM THE ROAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:- Armitt Library : A6653.44
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evidence:-

old print:- Green 1814 (plate 44)

source data:-

Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Wast Water from the Road, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.

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Plate 44 in Sixty Small Prints.
printed at top right:- "44"
printed at bottom:- "WAST WATER FROM THE ROAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:- Armitt Library : A6656.44
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evidence:-

old text:- Green 1814
placename:- Great Gable
item:- placename

source data:-

Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.

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page 26:- "... Great Gable, so called from its resemblance to the roof of a house. ..."

evidence:-

old print with text:- Farington 1816
placename:- Great Gable

source data:-

Print, uncoloured engraving and descriptive text, Wastdale Village, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, drawn by Joseph Farington, engraved by J Landseer, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand, London, 1815.

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printed, bottom left, right, centre "Drawn by J. Farington R.A. / Engraved by J. Landseer A.R.A. / Wastdale Village. / London Published Septr. 15, 1815, by T. Cadell &W. Davies, Strand."
Descriptive text:- "WASTDALE VILLAGE,"
"... the valley is closely surrounded by mountains. That which is most conspicuous in our view rises in the form of a cone, to a stupendous height, and presents a precipitous front; which, under varying effects of light and shade, exhibits alternately the aweful, the beautiful, and the sublime. ..."
item:- Armitt Library : A6666.18
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evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Gable

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.

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item:- JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830)
placename:- Great Gable
placename:- Gable

source data:-

Print, engraving, outline view, Some of the Western Mountains as seen from Helvellyn, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.

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p.57 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830. "Some of the Western Mountains: / as seen from Helvellyn."
"Wetherlam / Old Man - Coniston Fell / Carrs, or Scars / Gray Friar / Black Combe / Crinkle Crags / Bowfell / Scawfell Pike / Great-end Crag / Glaramara / Great Gable / Kirkfell / Pillar Fell / Honister and High Crag / High Stile / Dalehead and Red Pike / Robinson / Blake Fell / Witeless Pike / Grasmoor / Ill Crags / Grisedale Pike"
item:- Armitt Library : A1175.3
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830)
placename:- Great Gable
placename:- Gable

source data:-

Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains of Coniston, Langdale, &c. as they appear from the road between Troutbeck Bridge and Bowness, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.

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p.97 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830. "The Mountains of Coniston, Langdale, &c. / as they appear from the road between Troutbeck Bridge and Bowness."
"Old Man - Coniston Fell / The Carrs / Wetherlam / Wrynose Gap / Pike of Bliscow / Crinkle Crags / Scawfell Pike / Bowfell / Great End / Great Gable / Pike of Stickle / Harrison Stickle / Paveyark"
item:- Armitt Library : A1175.4
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830)
placename:- Great Gable
placename:- Gable

source data:-

Print, engraving, outline view, The Mountains of Crummock and Buttermere as seen on the Road between Scale-Hill and Loweswater, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.

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p.125 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830. "The Mountains of Crummock and Buttermere: / as seen on the Road between Scale-Hill and Loweswater."
"Whiteside / Grasmoor / Witeless Pike / Robinson / Fleetworth / Rannerdale Knot / Hay Stacks and Gable / Cold Kell Wyke / Kirkfell / High Crag / High Stile / Red Pike / Melbreak / Hencomb"
item:- Armitt Library : A1175.7
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830)
placename:- Great Gable
placename:- Gable

source data:-

Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains round Wastwater as seen from the Strands in Nether Wasdale, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.

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p.129 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830. "The Mountains round Wastwater: / as seen from the Strands in Nether Wasdale."
"Buckbarrow Pike / Middlefell / Yewbarrow / Great Gable / Lingmell / Great-end Crag / Scawfell Pike / Scawfell / Screes"
item:- Armitt Library : A1175.8
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830)
placename:- Great Gable
placename:- Gable

source data:-

Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains of Ennerdale as seen from Kirkland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.

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p.131 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830. "The Mountains of Ennerdale: / as seen from Kirkland."
"Herdhouse / Green Gable / Great Gable / The Pillar / Wind Yate / Black Crag / Steeple / Matlin Cove / Hay Cock / Iron Crag / Revelin / Crag Fell - Grike"
item:- Armitt Library : A1175.9
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
placename:- Great Gable

source data:-

Engraving, outline view of mountains, Windermere looking towards the West from the Road between Troutbeck and Bowness, 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 : A1180.4
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
placename:- Great Gavel

source data:-

Engraving, outline view of mountains, Crummock and Buttermere from the Road near Loweswater Church, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.18 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.

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item:- Armitt Library : A1180.11
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
placename:- Great Gable

source data:-

Engraving, outline view of mountains, Mountains of Wast Water as seen from Nether Wasdale, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.22 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.

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item:- Armitt Library : A1180.14
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
placename:- Great Gable

source data:-

Engraving, outline view of mountains, A Group of Mountains seen from Helvellyn, looking towards the South West, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.50 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.

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item:- Armitt Library : A1180.18
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)

source data:-

Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Coniston, Langdale, Etc, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.

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Printed on p.7 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. "THE MOUNTAINS OF CONISTON, LANGDALE, &c. as they appear from the road between Troutbeck Bridge and Bowness."
Mountains in the view are listed:- "Old Man - Coniston Fell / The Carrs / Wetherlam / Wrynose Gap / Pike of Bliscow / Crinkle Crags / Scawfell Pike / Bowfell / Great End / Great Gable / Pike of Stickle / Harrison Stickle / Paveyark"
item:- JandMN : 48.2
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
placename:- Gable

source data:-

Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Crummock and Buttermere, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.

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Printed on p.25 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. "THE MOUNTAINS OF CRUMMOCK AND BUTTERMERE: as seen on the Road between Scale-Hill and Loweswater."
"Whiteside / Grasmoor / Witeless Pike / Robinson / Fleetworth Pike / Rannerdale Knot / Hay Stacks and Gable / Cold Keld Wyke / Kirkfell / High Crag / High Stile / Red Pike / Melbreak / Hencomb"
item:- JandMN : 48.6
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)

source data:-

Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Ennerdale, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.

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Printed on p.27 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. "THE MOUNTAINS OF ENNERDALE: as seen from Kirkland."
"Bannow Fell / Herdhouse / Green Gable / Great Gable / The Pillar / Bowness Knot and Wind Yate / Black Crag / Steeple / Matlin Cove / Hay Cock / Iron Crag / Revelin / Crag Fell / Grike"
item:- JandMN : 48.7
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)

source data:-

Print, woodcut outline view, Mountains of Wast Water, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.

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Printed on p.31 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. "THE MOUNTAINS OF WAST WATER: as seen from Nether Wasdale."
"Buckbarrow Pike / Middlefell / Yewbarrow / Great Gable / Sty Head Pass / Lingmell / Great-end Crag / Scawfell Pike / Scawfell / Screes"
item:- JandMN : 48.8
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)

source data:-

Print, woodcut outline view, A Group of Mountains, seen from Helvellyn, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.

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Printed on p.63 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. "A GROUP OF MOUNTAINS, Seen from Helvellyn, looking to the South-West."
"Holm Fell / Old Man - Coniston Fell / Wetherlam / Carrs, or Scars / Gray Friar / Black Combe / Harrison Stickle / Crinkle Crags / Bowfell / Hanging Knot / Scawfell Pike / Hindside / Great-end Crag / Glaramara / Great Gable / Green Gable / Kirkfell / Pillar Fell / Honister, and High Crag / High Stile / Dalehead, and Red Pike / Hindscarth, and Robinson / Blake Fell / Witeless Pike / Grasmoor / Ill Crags / Causey Pike / Grisedale Pike"
item:- JandMN : 48.10
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evidence:-

descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
placename:-  Gable
placename:-  Great Gavel
item:-  altitude, Great Gable; geology; garnet; well, Great Gable; horse; granite

source data:-

Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Coniston, Langdale, Etc, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.

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Page 70:- "GABLE, OR GREAT GAVEL"
"- So called from its shape - is a fine object as viewed from Wasdale, from Ennerdale, or from Crummock Lake; it is also seen from Windermere. It is 2925 feet in height, and is remarkable for a well of pure water on the very summit. This is not a spring issuing in the common way out of the earth; but is supplied immediately from the atmosphere, in the shape of rains and dews. It is a triangular receptacle in the rock, six inches deep, and capable of holding about two gallons; and by containing water in the driest seasons, shews how slight a degree of evaporation is carried on at this altitude. The rock of Gable is a very hard, compact, dark-coloured stone, with garnets imbedded."
"..."

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Page 130:- "... A steep zigzag track now descends on the side of Gable [from Sty Head], down which the horses may be led; as it is neither quite safe nor agreeable to ride. Crags of the most grotesque forms overlook the road, and the side of the hill is profusely strewed with stones, in some of which garnets may be found imbedded: and in crossing the stream which issues between Gable and Kirkfell, a rock of reddish granite may be seen, where it is denudated by the waters on both sides of the road. ..."
"..."

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Page 156:- "... Garnets are found imbedded in some of the rocks on Castlerigg Fell and Great Gable. ..."
item:- JandMN : 48.2
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evidence:-

descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
placename:-  Gable
placename:-  Great Gable
item:-  altitude, Great Gable

source data:-

Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.

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"... THE Lake district ... consists of large masses or clusters of mountains, generally terminating in one aspiring and pre-eminent point, with the intermediate valleys occupied either by lakes and their subsidiary tarns, or by winding rivers."
"The chief nuclei of these clusters are, Skiddaw and Blencathra, Helvellyn, Fairfield, Coniston Old Man, Blackcomb, Scafell, Gable, Red Pike, Grasmoor, Grisdale Pike, and the Langdale Pikes. Many noble and commanding mountains rise around these, rivalling them in height and grandeur, but still"

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Page iv:- "serving as large buttresses only. In the presentation of endlessly-diversified forms, these Mountains yield to none, however individually inferior they may be, owing to their being seldom seen in a detached point of view; although, on the other hand, they have thus the advantage of forming combinations at once grand and sublime, towering above each other, or rising in ridges, like the mighty billows of the ocean."

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Page 178:- "ELEVATION OF THE MOUNTAINS,"
"ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES."


No.	Names of Mountains.	Dalton.	Otley.	Trig. S.	Jamieson

7	Great Gable, Wastdale		2925

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Great Gavel

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

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"Gt. Gavel"
Hill hachuring.
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old text:- Miller 1847
placename:-  Great Gabel
placename:-  Gabel
item:-  rain gauge; rainfall

source data:-

Book, Report on the Fall of Rain in the Lake Districts of Cumberland and Westmoreland in 1846, by John Fletcher Miller, printed by G Irwin, Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1847.

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Page 4:- "Note. The Lake district Gauges are five inches in diameter; they are all of the same construction, and are elevated about eighteen inches above the surface. The funnel rims are of stout sheet brass, so that the apertures cannot readily lose their circular form. The Metres were all made by Bate of the Poultry, London. - The Rain is read off daily at 9 A.M."
"..."

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Page 8:-

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Page 9:- "REMARKS ON MOUNTAIN GAUGES."
"The Mountain Gauges are on pretty much the same construction as those in the vallies, but the receivers are much more capacious, being calculated to hold nearly 80 inches of Rain."
"The contents of the Gauges on Sca Fell and Gabel, have been frozen at the close of every month since October last; and as there is still no immediate prospect of our being able to measure off the water, I have concluded to publish the results obtained, without further delay: and, in the next report, I propose to give the whole monthly readings for 1846 and 1847 in one table."
"..."
"The Gauges on Sca Fell, Gabel, and Seatollar, are on the extreme summits of these mountains; and the whole of the instruments are freely exposed to the action of wind and rain, from almost every point of the compass."
"..."

			INCHES.
The Valley,	160	feet above the sea, has received	71.24
Stye Head,	1290		76.24
Seatollar,	1334		77.85
Sparkling Tarn,	1900		91.15
Great Gabel,	2925		64.69
Sca Fell,	3166		56.35

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Gable

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.

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"Gable"
hill hachuring
item:- JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-

old text:- Martineau 1855
item:- altitude, Great Gable

source data:-

Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.

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Page 179:- "A TABLE OF THE HEIGHTS OF MOUNTAINS IN THE COUNTIES OF CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND, AND LANCASHIRE."
"No. : Names of Mountains. : Counties. : Height in Feet above the Sea Level."
"6 : Great Gable, Wastdale : Cumberland : 2925"

evidence:-