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Whinlatter, Lorton
Whinlatter
Whinlatter Top
civil parish:-   Lorton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NY19682490
1Km square:-   NY1924
10Km square:-   NY12
altitude:-   1696 feet
altitude:-   517m

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 63 3) 
placename:-  Whinlatter
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:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  Whinlater
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Whinlatter
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Whinlatter"
Pass, hill hachuring. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   roughly old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  Whinlatter Fells
source data:-   Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
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"Whinlatter Fells"
hill hachuring 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   outline view:- Barrow 1888
placename:-  Whinlatter
source data:-   Outline view, engraving? Outline of Mountain Tops as seen from the Keswick Hotel, sketched by John Barrow, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, St Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, London, 1888.
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"... Whinlatter ..."
item:-  Kendal Library : 10.3
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Whinlatter
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Skiddaw and Derwent Water - Mountains as seen at Lodore Hotel, and Mountains as seen at the Third Gate on Ascending Latrigg on the Way to Skiddaw, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 28 Whinlatter ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.14
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Whinlatter
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen at Lowdore Inn, and Mountains as seen at the Third Gate on Ascending Latrigg on the Way to Skiddaw, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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"... 28 Whinlatter ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.7
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