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High Stile, Buttermere
High Stile
civil parish:-   Buttermere (formerly Cumberland)
civil parish:-   Ennerdale and Kinniside (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY16981479 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY1614
10Km square:-   NY11
altitude:-   2644 feet
altitude:-   806m

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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 69 10) 
placename:-  High Stile
placename:-  Stile, High
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:- Gents Mag 1751
placename:-  High Steel
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Black Lead Mines in Cumberland, and area, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, by George Smith, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1751.
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"High steel"
knobbly hillocks; mountains 
item:-  JandMN : 114
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evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  High Stile
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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"High Stile"
hill hachuring; a hill or mountain 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
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evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  High Style
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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Page 134:-  "Descend the track on the left, and you soon have in sight the highest possible contrast in nature. Four spiral towering mountains, dark, dun, and gloomy at noon-day, rise immediately from the western extremity of the deep narrow dell, and hang over Buttermere. The more southern is, by the dalesmen, from its form, called Hay-rick; the more pyramidal High-crag; the third High-style; and the fourth, from its ferruginous colour, Red-pike. ..."
evidence:-   old map:- West 1784 map
placename:-  High Stile
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.
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Marked by a tiny circle of hachuring. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A1221.1
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  High Steel
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
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page 68:-  "... The four conical topped mountains, High Pike, High Steel, High Crag, and Red Pike, are on the western side of the lake of Buttermere, ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  High Steel
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 21:-  "... The four conical-topped mountains, High Pike, High Steel, High Crag, and Red Pike, are on the western side of the lake of Buttermere, ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Otley 1818
placename:-  High Stile
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:-  High Stile
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:-  High Stile
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 (4th edn 1830) 
placename:-  High Stile
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, The Mountains of Crummock and Buttermere as seen on the Road between Scale-Hill and Loweswater, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland et al, 1830.
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p.125 in A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 4th edition, 1830.  "The Mountains of Crummock and Buttermere: / as seen on the Road between Scale-Hill and Loweswater."
"Whiteside / Grasmoor / Witeless Pike / Robinson / Fleetworth / Rannerdale Knot / Hay Stacks and Gable / Cold Kell Wyke / Kirkfell / High Crag / High Stile / Red Pike / Melbreak / Hencomb"
item:-  Armitt Library : A1175.7
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  High Stile
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:-  High Stile
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Crummock and Buttermere from the Road near Loweswater Church, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.18 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.11
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  High Stile
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Ennerdale from a Field near Kirkland and Salter, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.20 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.12
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evidence:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  High Stile
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, The Mountains of Crummock and Buttermere, by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, 1830.
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Printed on p.25 of A Concise Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 5th edition, 1834.  "THE MOUNTAINS OF CRUMMOCK AND BUTTERMERE: as seen on the Road between Scale-Hill and Loweswater."
"Whiteside / Grasmoor / Witeless Pike / Robinson / Fleetworth Pike / Rannerdale Knot / Hay Stacks and Gable / Cold Keld Wyke / Kirkfell / High Crag / High Stile / Red Pike / Melbreak / Hencomb"
item:-  JandMN : 48.6
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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 126:-  "... to the right [of Scarf Gap], three adjoining summits are called High-crag, High-stile, and Red-pike. The two first are composed of what some would call a porphyritic greenstone rock, the third of a reddish sienite: and between the second and third lies Burtness Tarn."
evidence:-   old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:-  High Stile
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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"High Stile"
hill hachuring 
item:-  JandMN : 82.1
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evidence:-   outline view:- Martineau 1855
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from Lanthwaite Wood Crummock Water, 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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Opposite p.84 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau. 
The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-  "1 Whiteless Pike, 2 Honister Crag, 3 Green Gable, 4 Great End, 5 Great Gable / Rannerdale Knott (beneath), 6 Scawfell Pike, 7 Kirkfell / Scarf Gap (below), 8 High Crag, 9 High Stile, 10 Bleaberry Crag, 11 Red Pike, 12 Melbreak."
"MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM LANTHWAITE WOOD CRUMMOCK WATER."
"L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1159.13
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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 photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, High Stile, Buttermere, Cumberland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS85
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evidence:-   outline view:- Barrow 1888
placename:-  High Stile
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.
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"... High Stile ..."
item:-  Kendal Library : 10.3
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evidence:-   outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:-  High Stile
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.
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"... High Stile ..."
item:-  JandMN : 28.5
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evidence:-   outline view:- Jenkinson 1875
placename:-  High Stile
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.
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"... High Stile ..."
item:-  JandMN : 28.9
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  High Stile
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.
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"... 17 High Stile ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.14
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  High Stile
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Buttermere - Mountains as seen from the Knots near the Hotel at Buttermere, and Mountains as seen at the Seat in Lanthwaite Wood, Scale Hill, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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"... 9 High Stile ... 10 High Stile ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.19
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  High Stile
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.
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"... 17 High Stile ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.7
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evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  High Stile
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from The Knots near the Victoria at Buttermere, and Mountains as seen at the Seat in Lanthwaite Wood, Scale Hill, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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"... 9 High Stile ... 10 High Stile ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.11
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evidence:-   outline view:- Tattersall 1836 (version 1869) 
placename:-  High Style
source data:-   Print, hand coloured, Buttermere Lake, Cumberland, drawn by George Tattersall, 1836, engraved by W F Topham, published by T J Allman, 463 Oxford Street, London, 1869.
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Included in The Lakes of England, by W F Topham. 
printed at bottom:-  "BUTTERMERE LAKE."
printed at bottom:-  "Buttermere Moss. / Honister Crag. / The Haycocks. / High Style. / Red Pike."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1067.10
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evidence:-   outline view:- Tattersall 1836
placename:-  High Style
source data:-   Print, engraving, Loweswater from the North West, 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. 
Frontispiece to The Lakes of England, by George Tattersall (listed to be inserted opposite p.35). 
printed at bottom:-  "LOWESWATER. / from the North West."
printed at bottom left to right:-  "Bottom. / Grasmoor. / Whiteless. / Buttermere &Moss. / Hindscarth. / Low Fell. / Glaramara. / Honister Crag. / Melbreak. / High Style. / Red Pike. / Blake Fell."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1204.35
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evidence:-   outline view:- Tattersall 1836
placename:-  High Style
source data:-   Print, engraving, Buttermere Lake, 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.74 of The Lakes of England, by George Tattersall. 
printed at bottom:-  "BUTTERMERE LAKE."
printed at bottom left to right:-  "Buttermere Moss. / Honister Crag. / The Haycocks. / High Style. / Red Pike."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1204.28
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evidence:-   outline view:- Tattersall 1836
placename:-  High Style
source data:-   Print, engraving, Honister Crag, Buttermere, 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.73 of The Lakes of England, by George Tattersall. 
printed at bottom:-  "HONISTER CRAG."
printed at bottom left to right:-  "Honister Crag. / The Haycocks. / High Style. / Red Pike. / Hindscarth."
item:-  Armitt Library : A1204.27
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BLY15.jpg  From low down Honister Pass.
(taken 24.4.2006)  
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BNM88.jpg (taken 4.4.2007)  
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BVH14.jpg  Cairn, and a shelter on the left.
(taken 17.8.2011)  
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BJQ17.jpg (taken 10.6.2005)  
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BQL61.jpg (taken 1.5.2009)  
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BQX30.jpg  Red Pike, High Stile, High Crag, from Pillar.
(taken 25.6.2009)  
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