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Wythburn Head, Wythburn
Wythburn Head
locality:-   Wyth Burn
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY29661116 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY2911
10Km square:-   NY21

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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Grasmere and Rydal, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.
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Printed on p.15 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834.  "MOUNTAINS OF GRASMERE AND RYDAL: as seen from Red-Bank Head."
"Hammer Scar / Silver How / Ullskarth, Wythburn head / Helm Crag and Stile / Littledale Pike, Skiddaw / Raise Gap / Calva in Caldbeck Fells / Part of Helvellyn / Seat Sandal / Grisedale Hause / Great Rigg, Fairfield / Green-head Ghyll / Forest Side / Nab Scar / Scandale Fell / Rydal Park / Cawdale Moor / Loughrigg Fell"
item:-  JandMN : 48.4
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, Mountains North East of Windermere, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.
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Printed on p.99 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834.  "MOUNTAINS NORTH-EAST OF WINDERMERE, as seen from Bowness."
Mountains are listed:-  "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:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Grasmere and Rydal, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.
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Page 157:-  "... and a vein of the same [yellow sulphuret copper ore] was a few years ago opened at Wythburn. ..."
item:-  JandMN : 48.4
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Wythburn Head
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Windermere looking towards the North East from Bowness, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.2 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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With a list of mountains. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.3
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Wythburn Head
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Grasmere from Red Bank Head, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.4 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.5
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evidence:-   outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:-  Wythburn Head
source data:-   Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Helvellyn, Westmorland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
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"... Wythburn Head ..."
item:-  JandMN : 28.5
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