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Heron Pike, Lakes
Heron Pike
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NY35600830
1Km square:-   NY3508
10Km square:-   NY30
altitude:-   2008 feet
altitude:-   612m

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BPS06.jpg (taken 7.10.2008)  
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BRS36.jpg (taken 7.10.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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hill hachuring; hill or mountain 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old print with text:- Farington 1789 (plate 20) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, The Bridge and part of the Village of Rydal, Westmorland, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and J Landseer, published by W Byrne, 69 Titchfield Street, London, 1785.
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BMZ06.jpg
Pelter Bridge over the River Rothay, Heron Pike in the background. 
Plate 20 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789; with descriptive text:-  "VIEW near the VILLAGE of RYDAL."
"THE Scene here represented includes Part of the Neighbourhood of Ambleside, ... Were a person at Leisure to attend to the various picturesque Situations he would meet with, he would allow the Subjects we have selected are not single instances, but are to be considered only as Specimens of the Style of the Country. The Bridge, ... with the Group of little Cottages near it, forms a beautiful Contrast to Rydal-fell, which rising in Alpine Grandeur, overshadows the Vale."
item:-  Dove Cottage : Lowther.7
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Forest Side Fell
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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"... 14 Forest side Fell ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.12
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evidence:-   probably outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Forest Side Fell
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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"... 14 Forest side Fell ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.5
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print with text:- Farington 1789 (plate 20) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, The Bridge and part of the Village of Rydal, Westmorland, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and J Landseer, published by W Byrne, 69 Titchfield Street, London, 1785.
image  click to enlarge
BMZ06.jpg
Pelter Bridge over the River Rothay, Heron Pike in the background. 
Plate 20 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789; with descriptive text:-  "VIEW near the VILLAGE of RYDAL."
"THE Scene here represented includes Part of the Neighbourhood of Ambleside, ... Were a person at Leisure to attend to the various picturesque Situations he would meet with, he would allow the Subjects we have selected are not single instances, but are to be considered only as Specimens of the Style of the Country. The Bridge, ... with the Group of little Cottages near it, forms a beautiful Contrast to Rydal-fell, which rising in Alpine Grandeur, overshadows the Vale."
item:-  Dove Cottage : Lowther.7
Image © see bottom of page
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