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Nine Standards, Hartley
Nine Standards
site name:-   Nine Standards Rigg
civil parish:-   Hartley (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Winton (formerly Westmorland) (as well?) 
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   cairn
coordinates:-   NY82490655 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY8206
10Km square:-   NY80


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BQI96.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQI97.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Nine Standards
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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"Nine Standards"
nine dots, on county boundary 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  latitudelongitudelat and long
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.
image OT01P078, button  goto source
Page 78:-  "STATION II.- SKIDDAW."
"Latitude 54° 39′ 12″ N. Longitude 3° 8′ 9″W. Height 3022 feet."
BEARINGS Distances
in miles
Height
in feet
Nine Standards, Westmorland 68 SE 38 2136

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Nine Standards
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"NINE STANDARDS / / / HARTLEY / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II / 73327 / NY8248406538"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Group of nine cairns crossing boundary between Hartley and Winton parishes; mentioned 1635. Drystone construction c10-12 ft high tapering towards top. Very prominent in landscape."


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BQI98.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQI99.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQJ12.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BMI03.jpg  From near Whygill Head, a long way away!
(taken 7.7.2006)  

MN photo:-  
The nine cairns from S to N:-

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BQJ01.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQJ02.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQJ03.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQJ04.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQJ05.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQJ06.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQJ07.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQJ08.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  
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BQJ09.jpg (taken 3.4.2009)  

hearsay:-  
It is said that the cairns were made to frighten off invading Scots, who were meant to think that an english army was camped on the hill.

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