Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Grisedale Pike, Above Derwent

Grisedale Pike, Above Derwent

Grisedale Pike

civil parish:-

Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)

civil parish:-

Lorton (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

hill

coordinates:-

NY19852256 (?)

1Km square:-

NY1922

10Km square:-

NY12

altitude:-

2593 feet

altitude:-

790m

BNK96.jpg (taken 24.3.2007)
photograph

BNK95.jpg Grisedale Pike and Hobcarton Crag.
(taken 24.3.2007)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 63 7)
placename:- Grisedale Pike

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:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Grisdale Pike

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.

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"Grisdale Pike"
hill hachuring; a hill or mountain
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Cooper 1808
placename:- Grisdale Pike

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 10.5 miles to 1 inch, drawn and engraved by Cooper, published by R Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808.

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"Grisdale Pike"
hill hachuring; mountain or hill
item:- JandMN : 86
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evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Grisdale Pike

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:-

old print:- Westall 1820
placename:- Grisedale Pike

source data:-

Print, uncoloured mezzotint, Keswick and Grisedale Pike, Cumberland, drawn and engraved by William Westall, published by Rodwell and Martin, New Bond Street, London, 1820.

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printed, bottom left, centre "Drawn & Engraved by W. Westall A.R.A. / Keswick and Grisedale Pike. / Published April 1, 1820, by Hurst, Robinson &Co. Cheapside."
item:- Armitt Library : A6671.2
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evidence:-

old print:- Fielding and Walton 1821 (plate 44)
placename:- Grisedale Pike

source data:-

Print, coloured aquatint, Grisedale Pike, Above Derwent, Cumberland, drawn by Theodore H A Fielding, published by R Ackermann, 101 Strand, London, 1821.

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The pike peeps between the tree branches: I am inclined to think the bridge might be the one in Braithwaite village, on the Coledale Beck.
Tipped in opposite p.272 in A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes.
item:- Dove Cottage : 1993.R566.44
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830)
placename:- Grisedale Pike

source data:-

Print, engraving, outline view, Some of the Western Mountains as seen from Helvellyn, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.

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p.57 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830. "Some of the Western Mountains: / as seen from Helvellyn."
"Wetherlam / Old Man - Coniston Fell / Carrs, or Scars / Gray Friar / Black Combe / Crinkle Crags / Bowfell / Scawfell Pike / Great-end Crag / Glaramara / Great Gable / Kirkfell / Pillar Fell / Honister and High Crag / High Stile / Dalehead and Red Pike / Robinson / Blake Fell / Witeless Pike / Grasmoor / Ill Crags / Grisedale Pike"
item:- Armitt Library : A1175.3
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evidence:-

outline view:- Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830)
placename:- Grisedale Pike

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:- Grisedale Pike

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 (8th edn 1849)
placename:- Grisedale Pike

source data:-

Engraving, outline view of mountains, A Group of Mountains seen from Helvellyn, looking towards the South West, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.50 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.

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item:- Armitt Library : A1180.18
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evidence:-

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

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:-

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

source data:-

Print, woodcut outline view, A Group of Mountains, seen from Helvellyn, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.

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Printed on p.63 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834. "A GROUP OF MOUNTAINS, Seen from Helvellyn, looking to the South-West."
"Holm Fell / Old Man - Coniston Fell / Wetherlam / Carrs, or Scars / Gray Friar / Black Combe / Harrison Stickle / Crinkle Crags / Bowfell / Hanging Knot / Scawfell Pike / Hindside / Great-end Crag / Glaramara / Great Gable / Green Gable / Kirkfell / Pillar Fell / Honister, and High Crag / High Stile / Dalehead, and Red Pike / Hindscarth, and Robinson / Blake Fell / Witeless Pike / Grasmoor / Ill Crags / Causey Pike / Grisedale Pike"
item:- JandMN : 48.10
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evidence:-

descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
item:- geology

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 71:- "GRISEDALE PIKE"
"Rises to a lofty apex, as its name implies. It is 2580 feet in height; and is well situated for a view of the vale of Keswick to the east; and a considerable part of the county of Cumberland, with the sea, the Isle of Man and the mountains of Galloway, to the west and north."
"..."

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Page 152:- "The greatest bulk of these mountain rocks have been commonly included under the general appellation of slate; although many of them shew no disposition to the slaty cleavage. They may be classed in three principal divisions."
"Of these divisions, the FIRST or lowest in the series, forms ...Grisedale Pike, ..."

evidence:-

descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
placename:- Grisdale Pike
item:- altitude, Grisedale Pike

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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"... THE Lake district ... consists of large masses or clusters of mountains, generally terminating in one aspiring and pre-eminent point, with the intermediate valleys occupied either by lakes and their subsidiary tarns, or by winding rivers."
"The chief nuclei of these clusters are, Skiddaw and Blencathra, Helvellyn, Fairfield, Coniston Old Man, Blackcomb, Scafell, Gable, Red Pike, Grasmoor, Grisdale Pike, and the Langdale Pikes. Many noble and commanding mountains rise around these, rivalling them in height and grandeur, but still"

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Page iv:- "serving as large buttresses only. In the presentation of endlessly-diversified forms, these Mountains yield to none, however individually inferior they may be, owing to their being seldom seen in a detached point of view; although, on the other hand, they have thus the advantage of forming combinations at once grand and sublime, towering above each other, or rising in ridges, like the mighty billows of the ocean."

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


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

15	Grisedale Pike		2580	2680

evidence:-

old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:- Grisdale Pike

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.

FD02NY12.jpg
"Grisdale Pike"
Hill hachuring.
item:- JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Grisedale Pike

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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"Grisedale Pike"
hill hachuring
item:- JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-

outline view:- Martineau 1855

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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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
item:- altitude, Grisedale Pike

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."
"14 : Grisedale Pike : Cumberland : 2680"

evidence:-

old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s

source data:-

Photograph, black and white, Derwent Water and Grisedale Pike, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.

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internegative at lower right:- "H. Bell"
item:- Armitt Library : ALPS133
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evidence:-

outline view:- Barrow 1888
placename:- Grisedale Pike

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:- Grisedale Pike

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:- Grisedale Pike

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:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:- Grisedale Pike

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.

evidence:-

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

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:-

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

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.

CDZ13.jpg From near Force Crag.
(taken 16.9.2015)

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BUH43.jpg (taken 28.3.2011)

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BWD24.jpg (taken 19.3.2012)

notes:-

This was one of the beacon hills between Cheviot and Lancaster, and was shabbily treated by Macaulay. To make his scansion work he substituted Skiddaw:-:-

"Till Skiddaw saw the fire that burned on Gaunt's embattled pile,
And the red glare on Skiddaw roused the burghers of Carlisle."

Baron 1925

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