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| Irton Fell, Irton with Santon | ||
| Irton Fell | ||
| civil parish:- | Irton with Santon (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| locality type:- | fell | |
| coordinates:- | NY136024 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1302 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY10 | |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) item:- geology |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto sourcePage 149:- "A variety of granite with reddish felspar, and which from a deficiency of mica, has sometimes been" goto sourcePage 151:- "called sienite, forms the two inferior mountain ridges, called Irton Fell and Muncaster Fell; ... It contains veins of red hematite and micaceous iron ore. ..." |
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| evidence:- | outline view:- Linton 1852 placename:- Irton Fell |
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| source data:- | Print, engraving, outline views, Mountains as Seen from the Esk Viaduct, the Eskmeals
Viaduct, and Mountains as Seen from the Viaduct near Drigg, the Irt Viaduct, Whitehaven
and Furness Junction Railway, Cumberland, engraved by W H Lizars, Edinburgh, published
by Whittaker and Co, London, and by R Gibson and Son and by Callander and Dixon, Whitehaven,
Cumberland, 1852. click to enlargeLN1E13.jpg Tipped in opposite p.86 of A Handbook of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway, by John Linton. item:- Armitt Library : A1158.11 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Herdwick sheep are found on the fell. Legend says that the breed arrived when a group
of Herdwicks swam ashore from a wrecked Viking ship off Ravenglass. |
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