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Mungrisdale Common, Mungrisdale
Mungrisdale Common
civil parish:-   Mungrisdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   common
coordinates:-   NY31752922 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY3129
10Km square:-   NY32


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CDI62.jpg  From Blue Screes.
(taken 11.6.2015)  
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BVE70.jpg  Across the Caldew.
(taken 8.8.2011)  

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Grisedale
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1747 p.523  "[on a journey to Caldbeck Fells] ..."
"At Grisedale the water turns bothways, so that in a sudden shower you may with your foot only, send the rain-water, either to Carlisle or Cockermouth, by the channels of Cauda or Lender-maken. ..."
At the head of the Glenderamackin and of Blackhazel Beck. 

evidence:-   old map:- Gents Mag 1747
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, perspective view, Caudbeck Fells ie Caldbeck Fells, scale about 1+ miles to 1 inch, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1747.
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"DESOLATE AND MOUNTANOUS"
area 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 43
Image © Carlisle Library

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