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Old Woman Cowering, Helm Crag
site name:-   Helm Crag
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY32620938 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY3209
10Km square:-   NY30
references:-   OS County Series

photograph
BUF65.jpg (taken 14.3.2011)  
photograph
BUF66.jpg  or the Old Woman Playing the Organ, according to Wainwright.
(taken 14.3.2011)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) 
placename:-  Old Woman Cowering, The
placename:-  Woman Cowering, The, Old
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:-   probably old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Old Woman Cowering, Helm Crag and Dunmail Raise, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1857.
image  click to enlarge
AS0510.jpg
"Looking up Dunmail raise / rock on the N. side of Helm crag."
page number  "8"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.389.10
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, Old Woman Cowering, Helm Crag, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1857.
image  click to enlarge
AS0512.jpg
page number  "10"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.389.12
Image © see bottom of page
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