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| Millennium Plaque, Loweswater | ||
| Millennium Plaque | ||
| locality:- | Loweswater | |
| civil parish:- | Loweswater (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | viewpoint | |
| locality type:- | monument | |
| locality type:- | outline view | |
| locality type:- | millennium project | |
| coordinates:- | NY14022102 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY1421 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY12 | |
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| MN photo:- |
A relief model map, a different sort of outline view; modelled by D Mellor, cast by
B Porter. |
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 BVF43.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  BVF44.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  BVF45.jpg Plaque, mountain names and heights, etc. (taken 17.8.2011)  BVF46.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  BVF47.jpg (taken 17.8.2011) |
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| The mountains are numbered on the model, keyed to a plaque:- |
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| "I - MELLBREAK ... 512m (1676') / II - WHITESIDE ... 707m (2319') / III - GRASMOOR
... 852m (2795') / IIII - WHITELESS PIKE ... 660m (21665') / V - ROBINSON ... 737m
(2417') / VI - BRANDRETH ... 715M (2344') / ERECTED BY LOWESWATER / PARISH COUNCIL
WITH ADDITIONAL / FUNDING BY THE L.D.N.P.A. AND / OTHER BENEFACTORS / TO COMMEMORATE
THE / MILLENNIUM 2000 / 355m (1164') ... RANNERDALE KNOTTS - VII / 807m (2647') ...
HIGH STILE - VIII / 744m (2440') ... HIGH CRAG - IX / 597m (1958') ... HAY STACKS
- X / 801m (2627') ... GREEN GABLE - XII / 899m (2949') ... GREAT GABLE - XII" |
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