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Pillar Rock, Ennerdale and Kinniside
Pillar Rock
site name:-   Pillar
locality:-   Ennerdale
civil parish:-   Ennerdale and Kinniside (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY171124 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY1712
10Km square:-   NY11

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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Pillar Stone
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Ennerdale from a Field near Kirkland and Salter, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.20 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.12
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evidence:-   old print:- Pyne 1853
source data:-   Print, tinted lithograph, Ennerdale Lake, Cumberland, by James Baker Pyne, engraved by W Gauci, published by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, Lancashire, 1853.
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"PAINTED BY J. B. PYNE. / W. GAUCI LITH. / MANCHESTER, PUBLISHED BY THOMAS AGNEW & SONS, 1853. / Ennerdale Lake / M & N HANHART IMPT."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6678.6
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evidence:-   old print:- Pyne 1853
source data:-   Print, coloured lithograph, Ennerdale Lake, Cumberland, by James Baker Pyne, engraved by W Gauci, published by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, Lancashire, 1853.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A6677.6
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Pillar Rock, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS561
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Pillar Rock, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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stamped at reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS559
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Pillar Rock, Ennerdale, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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internegative at lower right:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS183
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Pillar Rock, Ennerdale, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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stamped at reverse:-  "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS184
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evidence:-   old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) 
placename:-  Pillar Rock
source data:-   Print, colour halftone, The Pillar Rock of Ennerdale, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Cumberland, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908.
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Opposite p.100 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. 
printed at tissue opposite the print:-  "THE PILLAR ROCK OF ENNERDALE"
printed at signed lower left:-  "A HEATON COOPER"
item:-  JandMN : 468.38
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bogg 1898
placename:-  Pillar Rock
item:-  climbing
source data:-   Photograph, halftone print, Pillar Rock from Jordan Gap, Ennerdale and Kinniside, 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.163 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. 
item:-  JandMN : 231.52
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evidence:-   old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) 
placename:-  Pillar Rock
source data:-   Print, etching? The Pillar Rock, Ennerdale, Cumberland, by Harry Goodwin, 1883, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
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Tipped in opposite p.258 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. 
printed at lower centre:-  "The Pillar Rock Ennerdale"
item:-  JandMN : 382.53
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evidence:-   outline view:- Matthew 1866
placename:-  Piller Rocks
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Ennerdale, Cumberland, published by J Richardson, Highgate, Kendal, Westmorland, 1866.
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Tipped in before p.1 of The English Lakes, Peaks and Passes, from Kendal to Keswick, by George King Matthew. 
printed at bottom:-  "ENNERDALE"
printed at caption to mountains:-  "... Piller Rocks. ..."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1168.4
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evidence:-   old print:- Prior 1865
placename:-  Pillar Rock
item:-  climbing
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, The Ascent of the Pillar Rock, Ennerdale and Kinnisisde, Cumberland, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 1865.
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Included on page 143 of the guide book, Ascents and Passes in the Lake District of England, by Herman Prior. 
printed at bottom:-  "THE ASCENT OF THE PILLAR ROCK."
item:-  JandMN : 235.21
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evidence:-   old print:- Payn 1860s-70s
placename:-  Pillar Rock, The
item:-  lightning
source data:-   Print, colour printed, The Pillar Rock, Ennerdale, Cumberland, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Simpkin, Marshall and Co, London, 1860s-70s?
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Tipped in opposite p.70 of England's Lakeland, a Tour Therein, by James Payn. 
printed at bottom:-  "THE PILLAR ROCK."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1183.16
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hearsay:-  
 First recorded ascent was by John Atkinson, shepherd, 9 July 1826. This is the first recorded ascent of a peak in The Lakes; the beginning of climbing in the Lake District.
Rev James Jackson climbed the west side, The Old West Climb, at age 78, May 1875 and in 1876. The third time he tried, 1878, he was killed.
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Rev James Jackson, Patriarch of the Pillarites, set out to climb Pillar Rock on his 82nd birthday, May 1878; as he did each birthday. He had with him a bottle containing a verse, perhaps to leave on the summit:-
"Two elephantine properties are mine.
For I can bend to pick up pin or plack,
And when this year the Pillar Rock I climb,
Four score and two's the howdah on my back."
Sadly his heart failed, he slipped off and fell into Great Doup 900 feet below. A cairn and cross to his memory are erected at this spot.
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George D Abraham says Jacksoon only ever climbed Pillar once before, on his 80th birthday.
There used to be a brass cylinder, with a tightly screwed top, chained to a stake at the top of Pillar Rock. In this, climbers coould leave their calling cards. It fell off, and is now in the collection of the Museum of Lakeland Life, with the cards within.
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