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| Ivy Crag, Lakes | ||
| Ivy Crag | ||
| locality:- | Loughrigg Fell (?) | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| coordinates:- | NY35280427 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3504 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
| altitude:- | 863 feet | |
| altitude:- | 263m | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 9) placename:- Ivy Crag |
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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:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) item:- viewpoint |
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| 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. goto sourcePage 105:- "... on reaching the top of Ivy Crag, a" goto sourcePage 106:- "large rock overlooking Loughrigg Tarn, he [the tourist] will have an instantaneous burst upon a most extraordinary assemblage of landscape beauties. ..." |
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