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Shipman Knotts, Longsleddale
Shipman Knotts
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Kentmere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY47260621
1Km square:-   NY4706
10Km square:-   NY40
altitude:-   1926 feet
altitude:-   587m
MN photo:-  
 (Photos from Thomas)

photograph
BJM30.jpg  Snow on Shipman Knotts.
(taken 26.12.2004)  
photograph
BJM29.jpg  Sunrise, Shipman Knotts.
(taken 26.12.2004)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 2) 
placename:-  Shipman Knotts
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.
Marked as a Trigonometrical Station. 
There is a line of bench marks across the fell passing roughly through Shipman Knotts and Dun Crag. 
evidence:-   old map:- OS 1881-82 New Series (outline edition) 
placename:-  Shipmans Knots
source data:-   Map, engraving, area north of Kendal, Westmorland, New Series one inch map, outline edition, sheet 39, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1881-82.
image
O21NY40T.jpg
"Shipmans Knots / 1926"
item:-  JandMN : 61
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   textbook:- EPNS Westmorland 1967
placename:-  Sheipmantop
source data:-   Book, The Place Names of Westmorland, two volumes, by A H Smith, published for the English Place Name Society by Cambridge University Press, Cambridgeshire, 1967
evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
placename:-  Shipman Knots
source data:-   Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about 6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
image
SINY4706.jpg
"Shipman Knots / 1926"

photograph
CAK37.jpg (taken 19.4.2014)  
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