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| Priest's Crag, Matterdale | ||
| Priest's Crag | ||
| civil parish:- | Matterdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| coordinates:- | NY42882305 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4223 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY42 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 66 5) placename:- Priest's Crag |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Priests Cragg |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 26:- "... At a little distance from the chapel [All Saints, Watermillock] is an hill, commonly known by the name of the Priests Cragg: it was formerly covered with wood of different kinds, and was about 120 years ago the common resort of the country people for hunting, gathering nuts, and other diversions: these they put in practice on the Sunday, to the great disturbance of the congregation, ... ... [the disturbances] came to the ears of Rainbow Bishop of Carlisle. The Bishop upon this, with concurrence of the Duke of Norfolk, ordered the wood to be cut down: this put an end to the profanations there carried on, ..." |
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