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Snow Cove, Longsleddale
Snow Cove
Snowcove Gill
site name:-   Brown Crags
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   cirque
locality type:-   ravine
coordinates:-   NY47500748 (middle-ish) 
1Km square:-   NY4707
10Km square:-   NY40


photograph
CAK13.jpg (taken 19.4.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 2) 
placename:-  Snowcove Gill
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.

evidence:-   textbook:- EPNS Westmorland 1967
placename:-  Suancoue
placename:-  Snawecowe
placename:-  Snawcoo
placename:-  Snakey Gill
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:-  Snowcove Gill
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the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.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
SINY4707.jpg
Cf Snowcove Gill running from the coomb. 


photograph
BRB92.jpg (taken 19.7.2009)  
photograph
CAK36.jpg  On top of the crags.
(taken 19.4.2014)  

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