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Napes Needle, Nether Wasdale
Napes Needle
Needle Rock
site name:-   Great Gable
site name:-   Napes, The
civil parish:-   Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY209098 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY2009
10Km square:-   NY20
evidence:-   illustration:- Palmer 1926
source data:-   Embossed gilt illustration of Napes Needle on cover of guide book, Things Seen at the English Lakes, by William T Palmer, published by Seeley, Service and Co, 196 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1926.
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item:-  JandMN : 132
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evidence:-   old print:- Rumney 1899
placename:-  Needle Rock
source data:-   Print, halftone photograph, Needle Rock - Napes Needle, Great Gable, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, published by George Philip and Son, 32 Fleet Street, London, and Liverpool, 1899.
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On p.74 of the Cyclist's Guide to the English Lake District, by A W Rumney. 
printed at bottom:-  "NEEDLE ROCK, GREAT GABLE."
item:-  JandMN : 147.28
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bogg 1898
placename:-  Napes Needle
item:-  climbing
source data:-   Photograph, halftone print, View of Napes Needle, Nether Wasdale, Cumberland, by F Leach, published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1898.
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Included on p.167 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. 
item:-  JandMN : 231.56
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