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viewpoint, Loweswater
locality:-   Loweswater
civil parish:-   Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   viewpoint
coordinates:-   NY141211 (perhaps) 
1Km square:-   NY1421
10Km square:-   NY12

evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, The Mountains of Crummock and Buttermere as seen on the Road between Scale-Hill and Loweswater, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.
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p.125 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830. 
printed at top:-  "The Mountains of Crummock and Buttermere: / as seen on the Road between Scale-Hill and Loweswater."
printed at bottom:-  "Whiteside / Grasmoor / Witeless Pike / Robinson / Fleetworth / Rannerdale Knot / Hay Stacks and Gable / Cold Kell Wyke / Kirkfell / High Crag / High Stile / Red Pike / Melbreak / Hencomb"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1175.7
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Crummock and Buttermere, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1834.
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Printed on p.25 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. 
printed at top:-  "THE MOUNTAINS OF CRUMMOCK AND BUTTERMERE: / as seen on the road between Scale-Hill and Loweswater."
printed at bottom:-  "Whiteside / Grasmoor / Witeless Pike / Robinson / Fleetworth Pike / Rannerdale Knot / Hay Stacks and Gable / Cold Keld Wyke / Kirkfell / High Crag / High Stile / Red Pike / Melbreak / Hencomb"
item:-  JandMN : 48.6
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view of mountains, Crummock and Buttermere from the Road near Loweswater Church, drawn by Mr Binns, Halifax, engraved by Mr Jewitt, Headington, Oxfordshire, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1849.
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Opposite p.18 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849. 
printed at bottom:-  "CRUMMOCK AND BUTTERMERE: - / FROM THE ROAD NEAR LOWESWATER CHURCH."
printed at top:-  "Grasmoor / Witeless Pike / Robinson / The Moss / Fleetworth Pike / Rannerdale Knot / Great Gavel / Hay Stacks (l.2) / High Crag / High Stile / Dod / Red Pike / Melbreak"
printed at bottom:-  "Loweswater Church. Gilterthwaite."
Looking SE; 80 degree view, EbyS to S. 'Gilterthwaite' is not where it is labelled, what is drawn is Church Stile. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.11
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