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| Great How, St John's Castlerigg etc | ||
| Great How | ||
| civil parish:- | St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| coordinates:- | NY31381874 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3118 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY31 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Great How |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 117:- "..." "This valley is inclosed on every side by high and rugged mountains; that on the right hand called Great How, is tolerably variegated with wood, as far as Mr Leathe's inclosures and house. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Green 1814 placename:- Great How, The |
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| 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. goto source page 13:- "... The Great How, which is on the" goto sourcepage 14:- "Dalehead side of the water, is here a principal feature, and is finely diversified with rock and wood: ..." |
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| evidence:- | outline view:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from the West Side of Thirlmere, drawn
by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere,
Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855. click to enlargeMNU110.jpg Opposite p.69 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau. "MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THIRLMERE." "L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr." The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:- "1 Raven Crag, 2 Castlerigg, 3 Blancathra vulgariter Saddleback, 4 Great How, 5 Green Crag, 6, Great Dod, 7 Part of Helvellyn." item:- Armitt Library : A1159.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Rose 1832-35 |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, Thirlmere Bridge, Looking North, Cumberland,
by Thomas Allom, engraved by W le Petit, 1833. click to enlargeR241.jpg "Thirlmere Bridge, Looking North, Cumberland" item:- JandMN : 96.14 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
This area is the setting of The Shadow of a Crime, by Hall Caine. |
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