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Craggy Wood, Over Staveley
Craggy Wood
Craggy Plantation
locality:-   Spy Crag
civil parish:-   Over Staveley (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   wood
coordinates:-   SD47569852 (etc) 
1Km square:-   SD4798
10Km square:-   SD49


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BTZ46.jpg (taken 1.2.2011)  
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BTZ50.jpg (taken 1.2.2011)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 33 6) 
placename:-  Craggypark Plantation
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.

hearsay:-  
Remnant of a deer park of the 12th to 14th centuries.
The lower part of the wood seems to be mostly mature beech wood.


photograph
BTZ49.jpg (taken 1.2.2011)  

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