Old Cumbria Gazetteer - High Pike, Caldbeck

High Pike, Caldbeck

High Pike

locality:-

Caldbeck Fells

civil parish:-

Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

hill

coordinates:-

NY31873501 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY3135

10Km square:-

NY33

altitude:-

2159 feet

altitude:-

658m

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CAA78.jpg (taken 3.3.2014)
photograph

BRC93.jpg The top.
(taken 20.7.2009)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 47 8)
placename:- High Pike
placename:- Pike, High

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 map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- High Pike

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

D4NY33NW.jpg
"High Pike"
hill hachuring; a hill or mountain
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- West 1784 map
placename:- High Pike

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.

Ws02NY13.jpg
Marked by a small circle of hachures.
item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:- High Pike

source data:-

Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5 miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.

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GRA1Lk.jpg
"High Pike"
hill hachuring; mountain
item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- High Pike

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.

OT02NY33.jpg
item:- JandMN : 48.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-

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

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


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

22	High Pike, Caldbeck			2101

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- High Pike

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.

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- High Pike

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.

evidence:-

old text:- Martineau 1855
item:- altitude, High Pike

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."
"19 : High Pike, Caldbeck : Cumberland : 2101"

evidence:-

outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:- High Pike

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.

hearsay:-

A slate memorial on the top of High Pike commemorates Mick Lewis of Nether Row, died 1944 age 16:-

"... who loved all these hills ..."

It also commemorates his mother, who died later.

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