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| Cat Crag, Borrowdale | ||
| Cat Crag | ||
| locality:- | Low Crag | |
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| coordinates:- | NY26851950 (guess) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2619 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
| references:- | Clarke 1787 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Clarke 1787 placename:- Catt Cragg item:- wild cat; placename, Cat Crag |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 73:- "..." "... We next pass the wooded rocks, Catt-Gill and Catt-Cragg; so names I suppose from the wild cats which inhabit there; ..." |
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