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| Broad Haystack, Borrowdale | ||
| Broad Haystack | ||
| locality:- | Borrowdale Fells | |
| locality:- | Stonethwaite | |
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| coordinates:- | NY261132 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2613 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 14) placename:- Broad Haystack |
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| 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. |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) placename:- Hays Stacks |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto sourcePage 25:- "[from Fangs Brow] ... between the last [Honister Crag] and Rannerdale Knot, is just seen a part of the mountain called Hay Stacks, near Stonethwaite in Borrowdale. ..." |
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