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Bowness Knott, Ennerdale and Kinniside
Bowness Knott
locality:-   Ennerdale
civil parish:-   Ennerdale and Kinniside (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NY11211554
1Km square:-   NY1115
10Km square:-   NY11
altitude:-   1093 feet
altitude:-   333m

photograph
BMA07.jpg  From Cauda Brow; with Forestry Commission trees.
(taken 3.5.2006)  
photograph
BUL69.jpg (taken 27.4.2011)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 68 12) 
placename:-  Bowness Knott
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 text:- Green 1810
placename:-  Bonus Knott
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
image GN14p072, button  goto source
page 72:-  "[Ennerdale Water] ... Bonus Knot, a mountain mass of rugged rock, is the side screen on the left, ..."
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 42) 
placename:-  Bonus Knott
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Ennerdale Water, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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GN1042.jpg
Plate 42 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "42"
printed at bottom:-  "ENNERDALE WATER. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.42
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 42) 
placename:-  Bonus Knott
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Ennerdale Water, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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GN0942.jpg
Plate 42 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "42"
printed at bottom:-  "ENNERDALE WATER. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.42
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Bonus Knott
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p23, button  goto source
page 23:-  "... Bonus Knott, a mountain mass of rugged rock, is the side screen on the left [of Ennerdale Water] ..."
evidence:-   old print:- Fielding and Walton 1821 (plate 31) 
source data:-   Print, coloured aquatint, Ennerdale Water, Ennerdale and Kinniside, Cumberland, drawn by Theodore H A Fielding, published by R Ackermann, 101 Strand, London, 1821.
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FW0131.jpg
Bowness Knott and Angler's Crag are prominent. 
Tipped in opposite p.206 in A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes. 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 1993.R566.31
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Bowness Knot
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Ennerdale from a Field near Kirkland and Salter, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.20 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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O80E11.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.12
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Bowness Knot
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains of Ennerdale, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.
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Printed on p.27 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834.  "THE MOUNTAINS OF ENNERDALE: as seen from Kirkland."
"Bannow Fell / Herdhouse / Green Gable / Great Gable / The Pillar / Bowness Knot and Wind Yate / Black Crag / Steeple / Matlin Cove / Hay Cock / Iron Crag / Revelin / Crag Fell / Grike"
item:-  JandMN : 48.7
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evidence:-   outline view:- Matthew 1866
placename:-  Bowness Knott
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Ennerdale, Cumberland, published by J Richardson, Highgate, Kendal, Westmorland, 1866.
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Tipped in before p.1 of The English Lakes, Peaks and Passes, from Kendal to Keswick, by George King Matthew. 
printed at bottom:-  "ENNERDALE"
printed at caption to mountains:-  "Bowness Knott. ..."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1168.4
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evidence:-   outline view:- Tattersall 1836 (version 1869) 
source data:-   Print, hand coloured, Ennerdale Lake, from the North East, Cumberland, drawn by George Tattersall, 1836, engraved by W F Topham, published by T J Allman, 463 Oxford Street, London, 1869.
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TAT215.jpg
Included in The Lakes of England, by W F Topham. 
printed at bottom:-  "ENNERDALE LAKE, / from the North East."
printed at bottom:-  "Herd House. / Green Gavel. / Gt. Gavel. / The Pillar. / Steeple Crag. / Iron Crag. / Haycock. / Revelin."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1067.15
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evidence:-   outline view:- Tattersall 1836
source data:-   Print, engraving, Ennerdale Lake, from the North East, Cumberland, drawn by George Tattersall, engraved by W F Topham, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster Row, London, about 1836.
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TAT133.jpg
The print is captioned with mountain names and acts as an outline view. 
Tipped in opposite p.83 of The Lakes of England, by George Tattersall. 
printed at bottom:-  "ENNERDALE LAKE, / from the North East."
printed at bottom left to right:-  "Herd House. / Green Gavel. / Gt. Gavel. / The Pillar. / Steeple Crag. / Iron Crag. / Haycock. / Revelin."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1204.34
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photograph
BWO10.jpg (taken 16.5.2012)  
MN photo:-  
 There is a useful car park at the foot of the knot.

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CEE70.jpg (taken 27.10.2015)  
Good useful data, especially for emergencies; BUT
Latitude and longitude with .0000001 degree accuracy, which is about +- 1cm
Post code, which, in a rural area, is +- half a mile.
No grid reference.
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