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Rocking Stone, St John's Castlerigg etc
Rocking Stone
locality:-   Armboth Fell (?) 
civil parish:-   St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   stone
locality type:-   glacial erratic
1Km square:-   NY3017 (??) 
10Km square:-   NY31
SummaryText:-   we have no good idea where, near Thirlmere, this is.
references:-   Bell 1880s-1940s
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Thirlmere, looking north from the Rocking Stone, before flooding, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0919.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS594
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  glacial erratic
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Rocking Stone, by Thirlmere, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0740.jpg
internegative at lower right:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS403
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Thirlmere from the Rocking Stone, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
image  click to enlarge
HB0727.jpg
internegative at lower left:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS391
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, Rocking Stone above Thirlmere, St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
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HB0324.jpg
ms at reverse:-  "Rocking Stone, Thirlmere"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS683
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