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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

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 9) 
placename:-  Ivy Crag
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:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  viewpoint
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 OT01P105, button  goto source
Page 105:-  "... on reaching the top of Ivy Crag, a"
image OT01P106, button  goto source
Page 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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