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viewpoint, Bowness
locality:-   Bowness-on-Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   viewpoint
coordinates:-   SD402968 (?) 
1Km square:-   SD4096
10Km square:-   SD49

evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, Mountains North East of Windermere, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1830.
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Printed on p.99 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. 
printed at top:-  "MOUNTAINS NORTH-EAST OF WINDERMERE, / as seen from Bowness."
printed at bottom:-  "High Raise / Ullskarth, Wythburn Head / Loughrigg Fell / Stile / Raise Gap / Nab Scar / Great Rigg / Fairfield / Rydal Park / Wansfell Pike / Red Screes / Cawdale Moor / Threshthwaite Mouth / High Street / Froswick / Ill bell / Yoak / Applethwaite Fell"
item:-  JandMN : 48.12
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view of mountains, Windermere looking towards the North East from Bowness, 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.2 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849. 
printed at bottom:-  "WINDERMERE: - Looking towards the North-East. / FROM BOWNESS."
printed at top:-  "High Raise / Ullskarth, Wythburn Head / Stile / Loughrigg Fell (line 2) / (Raise Gap) / Gilbert Scar (line 2) / Nab Scar / Great Rigg / Fairfield / (Rydal Park) / Wansfell Pike / Red Screes, near Kirkstone / Woundale Head / Troutbeck Hundreds (l.2) / Cawdale Moor / Threshthwaite Mouth / High Street / Froswick / Ill Bell / Yoak / Applethwaite Fell"
Looking NbyW, not 'towards the North-East'; 60 degree view, NW to NNE. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.3
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