High Pike, Caldbeck | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
High Pike | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
locality:- | Caldbeck Fells | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
civil parish:- | Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
county:- | Cumbria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
locality type:- | hill | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
coordinates:- | NY31873501 (etc) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
1Km square:- | NY3135 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
10Km square:- | NY33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
altitude:- | 2159 feet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
altitude:- | 658m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Click to enlarge CAA78.jpg (taken 3.3.2014) BRC93.jpg The top. (taken 20.7.2009) |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 47 8) placename:- High Pike placename:- Pike, High |
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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. |
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evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) placename:- High Pike |
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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. D4NY33NW.jpg "High Pike" hill hachuring; a hill or mountain item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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evidence:- | old map:- West 1784 map placename:- High Pike |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland,
Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch,
engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784. Ws02NY13.jpg Marked by a small circle of hachures. item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Cooke 1802 placename:- High Pike |
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source data:- | Map, The Lakes, Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 8.5
miles to 1 inch, engravedby Neele and Son, published by
Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824. click to enlarge GRA1Lk.jpg "High Pike" hill hachuring; mountain item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 placename:- High Pike |
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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. OT02NY33.jpg item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) placename:- High Pike item:- altitude, High Pike |
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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. goto source Page 178:- "ELEVATION OF THE MOUNTAINS," "ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT AUTHORITIES."
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evidence:- | old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:- High Pike |
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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. FD02NY33.jpg "High Pike" Hill hachuring. item:- JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- High Pike |
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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. GAR2NY33.jpg "High Pike" hill hachuring item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 item:- altitude, High Pike |
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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. goto source 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." "19 : High Pike, Caldbeck : Cumberland : 2101" |
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evidence:- | outline view:- Jenkinson 1875 placename:- High Pike |
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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. click to enlarge Jk01E2.jpg "... High Pike ..." item:- JandMN : 28.8 Image © see bottom of page |
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hearsay:- |
A slate memorial on the top of High Pike commemorates Mick Lewis of Nether Row, died
1944 age 16:- |
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"... who loved all these hills ..." |
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It also commemorates his mother, who died later. |
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