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Dove Crag, Patterdale
Dove Crag
locality:-   Dovedale
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY37431044
1Km square:-   NY3710
10Km square:-   NY31
altitude:-   2598 feet
altitude:-   792m


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BXI70.jpg  Dove Crag, Dovedale Beck, Houndhope Cove.
(taken 18.9.2012)  
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BPH55.jpg (taken 9.6.2008)  

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Dow Craggs
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"DOW CRAGGS"
hill hachuring; hill or mountain 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Dow Craggs
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"DOW CRAGGS"
hill hachuring 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 55) 
placename:-  Dove Crag
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Dove Crag in Hartsope, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
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Plate 55 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "55"
printed at bottom:-  "DOVE CRAG IN HARTSOPE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.55
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830) 
placename:-  Dove Crags
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, The Mountains of Ullswater as seen from Pooley Bridge, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.
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p.109 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830.  "The Mountains of Ulswater: / as seen from Pooley Bridge."
"Swarth Fell / Cawdale Moor / Winter Crag / Dove Crags / Hallen Fell, and Place Fell / Stone Cross Pike / Birk Fell / Dolly Waggon Pike / Nether Cove Head / Helvellyn High Man / Catchety Cam / Helvellyn Low Man / Herring Pike / Keppel Cove Head / Raise / Greenside / Gowbarrow"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1175.5
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Dove Crags
source data:-   Print, woodcut outline view, Mountains of Ullswater, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.
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Printed on p.113 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834.  "MOUNTAINS OF ULLSWATER: as seen from Pooley Bridge."
Mountains are listed:-  "Swarth Fell / Cawdale Moor / Winter Crag / Dove Crags / Martindale Hause / Hallen Fell, and Place Fell / Stone Cross Pike / Birk Fell / Dolly Waggon Pike / Nether Cove Head / Helvellyn High Man / Catchety Cam / Helvellyn Low Man / Herring Pike / Keppel Cove Head / Raise / Greenside / Gowbarrow"
item:-  JandMN : 48.13
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evidence:-   outline view:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen on the Keswick Road approaching Ullswater, 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, opposite p.104 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.  "MOUNTAINS SEEN ON THE KESWICK ROAD APPROACHING ULLSWATER."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-  "1 Place Fell, 2 Birk Fell, 3 Red Screes, 4 Scandale Head, 5 Dove Crag (Hartsop), 6 Birks, 7 Rydal Head, 8 St. Sundays Crag, 9, Fairfield, 10 Glenridding Dod, 11 Dolly Waggon Pike, 12 Bleaberry Fell, 13 Striding Edge, 14 Herring Pike, 15 Gowbarrow Park."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.15
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Dove Crag
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Windermere - Mountains as seen from the North End of Belle Isle, Windermere, and Mountains as seen from Biscay How, Bowness, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 7 Dove Crags ... 22 Dove Crags ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.4
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Dove Crag
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Ullswater - Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ullswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ullswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 4 Dove Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.8
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Dove Crag
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Grasmere and Coniston - Mountains as seen from Redbank, Grasmere, and Mountains as seen a little beyond Tent Lodge on the Road from Coniston to Ulverstone, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 14 Dovecrags, Hartsop ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.12
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Dove Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from the North End of Belle Isle, Windermere, and Mountains as seen from Bisket How, Bowness, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, about 1844.
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BC02E1.jpg
"... 7 Dove Crags ... 22 Dove Crags ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.3
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Dove Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from Red Bank, Grasmere, and Mountains as seen a little beyond Tent-Lodge on the Road from Coniston to Ulverston, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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BC02E3.jpg
"... 14 Dovecrags, Hartsop ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.5
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Dove Crag
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen a little on the Matterdale Road near Lyulph's Tower on Ulleswater, and Mountains as seen at the Slate Quarry at Blowick on Ulleswater, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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BC02E9.jpg
"... 4 Dove Crag ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.15
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BMY53.jpg  Panorama from the track to Hartsop Hall; Caudale Moor, Kirkstone Pass, Middle Dodd, High Hartsop Dodd, Stand Crags and Dove Crag in Dovedale.
(taken 5.11.2006)  
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BND85.jpg (taken 5.2.2007)  
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BPH54.jpg (taken 9.6.2008)  

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