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Murthwaite Knott, Whitwell and Selside
Murthwaite Knott
civil parish:-   Whitwell and Selside (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   summit
coordinates:-   NY51750074
1Km square:-   NY5100
10Km square:-   NY50
altitude:-   981 feet
altitude:-   299m


photograph
BIQ01.jpg (taken 22.4.2004)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 4) 
placename:-  Murthwaite Knott
source data:-   County Series map, Westmorland sheet 33 4, part of Longsleddale, Westmorland, scale 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, about 1890s?
image
BNJ87.jpg
item:-  private collection : 55
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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 4) 
placename:-  Murthwaite Knott
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.
County Series 25 inch map, Westmorland sheet XXXIII 4, surveyed 1858-59, revised 1896, 2nd edition published by Ordnance Survey, 1898.  "Murthwaite Knott"
Marked as a Trigonometrical Station. 

evidence:-   old map:- Hodgson 1828
placename:-  Murthwaite Crag
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, Plan of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1 1/3 inches to 1 mile, by Thomas Hodgson, 1823-25, engraved by W R Gardner, Harpur Street, London, published by Thomas Hodgson, Lancaster, and perhaps by C Smith, 172 Strand, London,1828.

evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
placename:-  Murthwaite Knott
source data:-   Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about 6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
image
SINY5100.jpg
"Murthwaite Knott"

observation:-  
There is a tiny cairn, visible from the road below, on the west tip of the higher crag. This was built by the Purdy Family, visitors to the Murthwaite static caravans in the 1970s. They thought that as Ulgraves had a cairn, and Whiteside had a cairn, so Murthwaite Knott should have one too. The cairn is at NY51760077.

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