Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Cat Bells, Above Derwent

Cat Bells, Above Derwent

Cat Bells

High Cat Bell

Low Cat Bell

locality:-

Derwent Fells

civil parish:-

Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)

civil parish:-

Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

hill

coordinates:-

NY24401986

1Km square:-

NY2419

10Km square:-

NY21

altitude:-

1480 feet

altitude:-

451m

BPP94.jpg Across Derwent Isle from Crow Park.
(taken 24.8.2008)
photograph

BUW30.jpg (taken 29.6.2011)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 64 13)
placename:- Cat Bells

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:- Clarke 1787 map (Der)
placename:- Newlands Common

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of Derwentwater and its Environs, scale about 13 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.

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"NEWLANDS COMMON"
area
item:- private collection : 169
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evidence:-

old text:- Green 1814
placename:- Catt Bells
item:- shiver

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.

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page 16:- "..."
"Catt Bells, on the opposite side of the lake, advance boldly from it; but their surfaces being of green turf and loose shiver, are tamer in appearance than the rugged rocks of Barrow."

evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Cat Bell

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.

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item:- JandMN : 48.1
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830)
placename:- Cat Bell

source data:-

Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains South West of Derwentwater as seen from Keswick, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.

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p.115 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830. "The Mountains South-West of Derwentwater: / as seen from Keswick."
"Brund and Glaramara / Esk Hause / Castle Crag and Great End / Scawfell Pike / Gait Crag / Blea Crag / Bull Crag / Cat Bell / Hindscarth / Gold Scalp / Robinson / High Stile / Red Pike / Rawling end / Causey Pike / Sail / Ill Crags / Barrow / Swinside / Coledale Hause / Grisedale Pike"
item:- Armitt Library : A1175.6
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
placename:- Cat Bell

source data:-

Engraving, outline view of mountains, Derwent Water from Crow Park, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.10 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.

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item:- Armitt Library : A1180.7
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
placename:- Cat Bell

source data:-

Print, woodcut outline view, The Mountains South West of Derwentwater, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.

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Printed on p.21 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. "THE MOUNTAINS SOUTH-WEST OF DERWENTWATER: as seen from Keswick"
"Brund and Glaramara / Esk Hause / Castle Crag and Great End / Scawfell Pike / Gait Crag / Blea Crag / Bull Crag / Cat Bell / Hindscarth / Gold Scalp / Robinson / High Stile / Newlands Hause / Red Pike / Rawling End / Causey Pike / Sail / Ill Crags / Barrow / Swinside / Coledale Hause / Grisedale Pike"
item:- JandMN : 48.5
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evidence:-

descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
placename:- Catbells

source data:-

Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.

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Page 121:- "... Catbells with front of brighter green, shelve into the lake; which is chiefly bordered on that side by the woods of the late Lord William Gordon."

evidence:-

descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
placename:- Cat Bell
item:- altitude, Cat Bells

source data:-

Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.

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Page 178:- "ELEVATION OF THE MOUNTAINS,"
"ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES."


No.	Names of Mountains.	Dalton.	Otley.	Trig. S.	Jamieson

28	Cat Bell		1448

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Cat Bell

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.

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"Cat Bell"
No hachures.
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Cat Bells

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.

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"Cat Bells"
hill hachuring
item:- JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-

outline view:- Martineau 1855
placename:- Catbell

source data:-

Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from Applethwaite near Keswick, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.

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Plate, folded in opposite p.93 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau. "MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM APPLETHWAITE NEAR KESWICK."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:- "1 Wallow Crag, 2 Falcon Crag, 3 Shepherd's Crag / Lowdore below, 4 Glaramara, 5 Brund, 6 Castle Crag, 7 Great End, 8 Scawfell Pike, 9 Catbell, 10, High Stile, 11 Red Pike, 12 Grasmoor, 13 Causey Pike, 14 Melbreak, 15 Grisdale Pike"
item:- Armitt Library : A1159.14
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evidence:-

old text:- Martineau 1855
placename:- Cat Bell
item:- altitude, Cat Bells

source data:-

Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76.

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Page 179:- "A TABLE OF THE HEIGHTS OF MOUNTAINS IN THE COUNTIES OF CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND, AND LANCASHIRE."
"No. : Names of Mountains. : Counties. : Height in Feet above the Sea Level."
"25 : Cat Bell, Newlands : Cumberland : 1448"

evidence:-

outline view:- Barrow 1888
placename:- Cat Bells

source data:-

Outline view, engraving? Outline of Mountain Tops as seen from the Keswick Hotel, sketched by John Barrow, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, St Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, London, 1888.

evidence:-

outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:- Cat Bells

source data:-

Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Helvellyn, Westmorland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.

evidence:-

outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:- Cat Bells

source data:-

Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Skiddaw, Cumberland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.

evidence:-

outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900)
placename:- Catbell

source data:-

Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Skiddaw and Derwent Water - Mountains as seen at Lodore Hotel, and Mountains as seen at the Third Gate on Ascending Latrigg on the Way to Skiddaw, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.

evidence:-

old painting:-
placename:- Cat Bells

source data:-

Painting, oil on canvas, Catbells and Causey Pike, Derwentwater, Cumberland, by William James Blacklock, 1854.

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This is a view of Catbells and Causey Pike beyond Derwent Water in the Lake District on a fine summer's day. Bright sunshine throws the shadows of the fells beyond the lake into sharp relief. In the middle distance to right of composition the church spire of St John's Church, Keswick can be seen rising from thick woodland in front of which sheep are grazing. In the foreground a sandy track leads towards the lake in the centre of the composition. A woman stands amongst clumps of flowering heather, her back towards the viewer, looking towards the church spire. This painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854. Blacklock is one of Cumbria's most important landscape painters. He painted the scenery of Cumbria, the Lake District and the Borders and particularly favoured remote areas. He painted these landscapes in his own uniquely precise style.
The composition shows considerable artistic licence. Blacklock has altered components of the picture by bringing St John's Church in Keswick into view to make a more pleasing composition. Blacklock's unique painting style is very precise and has an almost three dimensional effect.
labelled at reverse on stretcher:- "Cat Bells and Causey Pike, Derwentwater W J Blacklock Cumwhitton No 3 Carlisle"
item:- Tullie House Museum : 1935.91.1
Image © Tullie House Museum

evidence:-

outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846)
placename:- Catbell

source data:-

Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen at Lowdore Inn, and Mountains as seen at the Third Gate on Ascending Latrigg on the Way to Skiddaw, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.

evidence:-

outline view:- Tattersall 1836
placename:- Catbells

source data:-

Print, engraving, Newlands Vale, from Robinson Fall, Cumberland, drawn by George Tattersall, engraved by W F Topham, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster Row, London, about 1836.

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The print is captioned with mountain names and acts as an outline view.
Tipped in opposite p.75 of The Lakes of England, by George Tattersall.
printed at bottom:- "NEWLANDS VALE, / from Robinson Fall."
printed at bottom left to right:- "Saddle End. / Caskettle. / Causey Pike. / Rawling End. / Saddleback. / Cross Fell. / Cat-bells. / Robinson."
item:- Armitt Library : A1204.30
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