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Boat Crag, Buttermere
Boat Crag
locality:-   Whiteside End
locality:-   Whiteside
civil parish:-   Buttermere (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY16412178 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY1621
10Km square:-   NY12

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 63 10) 
placename:-  Boat Crag
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:-   old map:- Gents Mag 1751
placename:-  Boat Crag
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Black Lead Mines in Cumberland, and area, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, by George Smith, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1751.
image
GM1307.jpg
"Boat Crag"
knobbly hillocks; mountains 
item:-  JandMN : 114
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