Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	Spying How, Troutbeck
	Spying How
locality:-	Troutbeck
civil parish:-	Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	locality
locality type:-	hill (?)
coordinates:-
1Km square:-	NY4000
10Km square:-	NY40
references:-	Camden 1789
evidence:-	old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)  placename:-  Spying Howe item:-  Raise, The; cairn; cist; human bones
source data:-	Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.   goto source Page 155:-  "..." "At a place called Spying How in Troutbeck constabulary, was a heap of stones called the Raise, which, being removed to make fences, discovered a chest of four stones, one on each side, and one at each end, full of human bones. There is another very large heap called Woundale Raise."
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag item:-  Raise, The
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.516  "Compendium of County History. - Westmorland." "At Spying How, TROUTBECK, there was a large heap of stones called the Raise, which contained a kistvaen full of men's bones, and another called Woundal Raise , supposed British sepulchres."

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