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Riggindale Crag, Shap Rural
Riggindale Crag
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   cirque
coordinates:-   NY447113 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4411
10Km square:-   NY41

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BLO67.jpg  Riggindale Crag etc.
(taken 25.1.2006)  
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BJT68.jpg  Riggindale Crag, High Street, and Haweswater.
(taken 22.8.2005)  
evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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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hill hachuring; hill or mountain 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
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 OT01P115, button  goto source
Page 115:-  "... and High Street. From ... which a narrow ridge, called Long Stile, projects so far as to seclude it [Mardale Green] from the other parts of the valley; and beyond this rises the apex of Kidstow Pike. ..."
evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Riggindale
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Hawes Water from Measand Beck, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.16 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.10
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Riggindale Crag
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Haws and Wastwater - Mountains as seen from Burn-Banks near the Foot of Hawes Water, and Mountains as seen near Nether Wastdale at the First Bridge on the road to Wast-Water, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... Riggindale Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.21
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Riggindale Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from Burn Banks near the Foot of Hawes Water, and Mountains as seen near Strands in Wastdale at the First bridge on the Road to Wast Water, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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"... Riggindale Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.12
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BJT66.jpg  Riggindale Crag - Swine Crag, Heron Crag, Eagle Crag - Harter Fell, and Haweswater.
(taken 22.8.2005)  
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CHD72.jpg  Riggindale Crag in snow - RoughCrag, Caspel Gate, Long Stile.
(taken 24.3.2014)  
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