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St Sunday Crag, Patterdale
St Sunday Crag
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY36711350 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3613
10Km square:-   NY31

photograph
CDZ96.jpg  St Sunday Crag, Deepdale Hause
(taken 28.9.2015)  
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CAO64.jpg (taken 29.4.2014)  
evidence:-   old print:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  St Sunday Cragg
source data:-   circle
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"St. Sunday Cragg"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6615.12
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  St Sunday Crag
placename:-  St Sundian Crag
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
image GN14p116, button  goto source
page 116:-  "The mountains on the immediate head of the water are not so steep as those which border it on the sides half way down, but they are rich in wood. St. Sunday, or St. Sundian Crag, swells sublimely above them, and is a fine object from many parts of the valley; ..."
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 53) 
item:-  sheep
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Ulls Water Head, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 53 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "53"
printed at bottom:-  "ULLS WATER HEAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.53
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 53) 
item:-  sheep
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Ulls Water Head, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 53 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "53"
printed at bottom:-  "ULLS WATER HEAD. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.53
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  St Sunday Crag
placename:-  St Sundian Crag
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p29, button  goto source
page 29:-  "..."
"The mountains on the immediate head of Ulls Water are not so steep as those which border it half way down, but they are rich in wood: St. Sunday, or St. Sundian Crag, swells sublimely above them, and is a fine object from many parts of the valley. ..."
evidence:-   outline view:- Martineau 1855
placename:-  St Sundays Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen on the Keswick Road approaching Ullswater, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
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Opposite p.104 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.  "MOUNTAINS SEEN ON THE KESWICK ROAD APPROACHING ULLSWATER."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-  "1 Place Fell, 2 Birk Fell, 3 Red Screes, 4 Scandale Head, 5 Dove Crag (Hartsop), 6 Birks, 7 Rydal Head, 8 St. Sundays Crag, 9, Fairfield, 10 Glenridding Dod, 11 Dolly Waggon Pike, 12 Bleaberry Fell, 13 Striding Edge, 14 Herring Pike, 15 Gowbarrow Park."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.15
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evidence:-   outline view:- Matthew 1866
placename:-  St Sunday Crags
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Helvellyn from above Harrop Tarn, Poney Road from Wythburn to Whatendlath and Borrowdale, 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:-  "HELVELLYN FROM ABOVE HARROP TARN, PONEY ROAD FROM WYTHBURN TO WHATENDLATH AND BORROWDALE."
printed at caption to mountains:-  "... St. Sunday Crags. ..."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1168.2
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  St Sunday Crag
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Ullswater - Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ullswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ullswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 6 St. Sunday Crag ... 8 St. Sunday Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.8
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  St Sunday Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ulleswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ulleswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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"... 6 St. Sunday Crag ... 8 St. Sunday Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.15
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evidence:-   old print:- Farington 1789 (plate 12) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, Patterdale from Martendale Fell, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and T Medland, published by W Byrne, 79 Titchfield Street, London, 1788.
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Behind St Patrick's Church is St Sunday Crag. 
Plate 12 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : Lowther.26
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photograph
CDZ95.jpg  Grisedale Tarn, St Sunday Crag, Deepdale Hause, etc
(taken 28.9.2015)  
photograph
BQG92.jpg (taken 17.3.2009)  
photograph
BOE47.jpg  From the SW.
(taken 11.9.2007)  
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BRS41.jpg  From Fairfield.
(taken 7.10.2009)  
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BVL43.jpg  Cairn.
(taken 26.9.2011)  
hearsay:-  
 Patterdale Mountain Rescue team rescued twenty four fox hounds of the Ullswater Hunt, left here crag fast by the fox, 1994.
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