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Caldbeck Fells
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Caldbeck parish, once in
Cumberland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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hill; fell
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coordinates:-
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NY3135
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10Km square:-
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NY33
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old map:- |
Garnett 1850s-60s H
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Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1
inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
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Caldbeck Fells
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hill hachuring
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placename:-
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Caldbeck Fells
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1850=1869
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period:-
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19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
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Ford 1839 map
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of
Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by
Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. |
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Caldbeck Fells
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Hill hachuring.
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placename:-
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Caldbeck Fells
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county:-
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Cumberland
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date:-
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1839
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1830s
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Ford 1839 map
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of
Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by
Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. |
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Caldbeck Fells
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Hill hachuring.
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placename:-
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Caldbeck Fells
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county:-
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Cumberland
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date:-
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1839
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19th century, early; 1830s
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descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
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Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes,
later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley,
published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J
Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale,
Cumbria, 1823 onwards. |
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Page 156:-
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... A curious mixed rock of basaltic appearance is found
near Berrier; it skirts the north side of Caldbeck Fells,
forms the hill called Binsey, and may be seen on the north
side of the Derwent near to Cockermouth.
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Page 161:-
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A superincumbent bed of limestone, by some called the
mountain, by others the upper transition limestone, mantles
round these mountains, in a position unconformable to the
strata of the slaty and other rocks upon which it reposes.
It bassets out near ... Ireby, Caldbeck, Hesket, ...
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date:-
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1823
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period:-
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19th century, early; 1820s
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Gents Mag (1747)
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The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer,
published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban,
and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to
1914. |
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Page 522:-
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... Caudebeck, that lateral detachment of the British Alps,
which overspreads great part of Cumberland; distinguished by
insuperable precipices, and tow'ring peaks, and exhibiting
landskapes of a quite different and more romantic air than
any part of the general ridge, and of nearer affinity to the
Switzerland Alps. ...
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These mountains differ not only in figure, but are very
dissimilar in property to the main body, being dry, smooth,
and more agreeably verdant, where precipices occur not. The
rocks upon which they are built, being of a fissile
absorbent nature, serving to imbibe the descending rains,
which are thrown off from the more compact strata of the
general ridge, and take broken and uneven courses, through
the loose and spongy texture of their outward covering,
forming sometimes morasses, but more frequently rotten bogs,
and sinuous mires of difficult passage
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No such disagreeable objects interrupt the traveller here;
if he guards against the precipices, he has no other danger
to encounter.
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The most common plants which I observed are,
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Adianthum nigrum officinarum (of Ray) black maiden hair.
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Lujula, acetosa sylvestris, wood or mountain sorrel.
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Muscus squammosus montanus repens, sabinae folio.
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Muscus clavatus juniperinis foliis reflexis, clavis
singularibus sine pediculis. Several mosses of the
capsulated kind.
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Brush moss.
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Rorella longifolia perennis, and other sun-dews.
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The shrubs rising from the latices of the rocks, are dwarf
birch, dwarf mountain oak, of so untractable a genius that
no soil will meliorate it.
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Fraxinus sylvestris, ornus montana, wild mountain ash, with
red fruit. I do not remember to have seen this tree in the
South, nearer than Derbyshire; it differs both in size and
leaf from the service tree, of which species it is,
according to the botanists, and is a very beautiful one when
the fruit is ripe; the superstitious use it against
witchcraft.
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The only bird peculiar to these rocks is the raven.
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It is a received Cumberland proverb, that the mountains of
Caudebeck are worth all England besides, but it has not yet
been verify'd by experience; and if we may be allow'd to
conjecture from the nature of their stones,found in the
rivulets and quarries, it may be difficult to say when they
will. Most of their lapilli are a fluor of the stalactite
kind, or a sparry talc resembling white flint, variegated
with hexagonal crystalline spars, whose points will cut
glass like the adamant, but immediately lose that property
from their fragil quality. Others are impregnated with the
marcasite of lead, but so blended with an arsenical sulphur
that they evaporate in the process of separation, and others
are of the copperas kind; all of them containing such
heterogeneal qualities in their composition, as never to
yield a proper gratification for the tryal. Their quarries,
also, only abound with a fissile blue-ish slate, useful for
the covering of their houses, but very remote from the
metalline nature: Indeed in Brandlegill-beck, and the
Northern descents, copper has been formerly dug, but the
mines are long since worn out; hereabouts the lapis
calaminaris is also found.
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placename:-
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Caudebeck
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date:-
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1747
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period:-
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18th century, early; 1740s
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1818 Level,
Caldbeck |
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beacon, High Pike |
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Birk Moss,
Caldbeck |
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Caldbeck Fells Barytes Mines,
Caldbeck |
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Curly Job Well,
Caldbeck |
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Deer Hills,
Caldbeck |
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Driggith Mine,
Caldbeck |
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Dry Gills,
Caldbeck |
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Drygill Beck |
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Drygill Mine,
Caldbeck |
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Hare Stones Umber Mine,
Caldbeck |
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Hay Gill Mines,
Caldbeck |
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Hay Knott,
Caldbeck |
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High Pike,
Caldbeck |
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house, High Pike |
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Iron Crag,
Caldbeck |
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Peteraw |
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Red Gill Mines,
Caldbeck |
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Roughtongill Mines,
Caldbeck |
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seat, High Pike |
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sheepfold, Caldbeck
Fells |
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topograph, High
Pike |
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trig point,
NY3187435008 |
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West Fell,
Caldbeck |
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Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013
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