button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Dow Crag, Torver
Dow Crag
locality:-   Old Man of Coniston
civil parish:-   Torver (formerly Lancashire)
civil parish:-   Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   SD26259778
1Km square:-   SD2697
10Km square:-   SD29
altitude:-   2552 feet
altitude:-   778m

photograph
CBP12.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
photograph
CBP11.jpg (taken 2.9.2014)  
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  Dove Crag
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
image GN14p002, button  goto source
page 2:-  "..."
"The view here presented ... is of the Man mountain, or, as it is more frequently called, the Old Man, with the pointed summit of Enfoot on the right, and Dove Crag on the left, ..."
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 1) 
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Coniston Water, Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image  click to enlarge
GN1001.jpg
Plate 1 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "1"
printed at bottom:-  "CONISTON WATER. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.1
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 1) 
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Coniston Water, Coniston, Lancashire, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image  click to enlarge
GN0901.jpg
Plate 1 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "1"
printed at bottom:-  "CONISTON WATER. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.1
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Dove Crag
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 GN09p04, button  goto source
page 4:-  "... The view here presented [plate 1] is a mile from the foot of the lake, and is of the Man mountain, or, as it is more frequently called, the "Old Man," with the pointed summit of Enfoot on the right, and Dove Crag on the left ..."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Dow Crag
placename:-  Dove Crag
item:-  trout; char; fishing
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.
image OT01P036, button  goto source
Page 36:-  "... Gates Water, ... reposes between the Old Man's western side, and the foot of the precipitous Dow Crag; (Dove Crag.) ..."
image OT01P080, button  goto source
Page 80:-  "THE CRAGS."
"... Dow Crag (Dove Crag) in Coniston Fells, ..."
evidence:-   outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:-  Dow Crags
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.
image  click to enlarge
Jk01E2.jpg
"... Dow Crags ..."
item:-  JandMN : 28.8
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:-  Dow Crags
source data:-   Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Scawfell Pike, Cumberland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
image  click to enlarge
Jk01E3.jpg
"... Dow Crags ..."
item:-  JandMN : 28.9
Image © see bottom of page

photograph
BTN40.jpg  ... the Great Gully
(taken 8.9.2010)  
photograph
BTN41.jpg (taken 8.9.2010)  
photograph
BTN39.jpg (taken 8.9.2010)  
photograph
BWU70.jpg (taken 18.6.2012)  
button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.