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Robinson Crags, Above Derwent
Robinson Crags
site name:-   Robinson
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   rocks
coordinates:-   NY201172
1Km square:-   NY2017
10Km square:-   NY21


photograph
CBB04.jpg (taken 9.7.2014)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 69 3) 
placename:-  Robinson Crags
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.
OS County Series (Cmd 69 4) 

evidence:-   probably descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
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.
image WS21P133, button  goto source
Page 133:-  "... approaching the head of Newland-hawse, on the left, a mountain of purple-coloured rock presents a thousand gaping chasms, excavated by torrents that fall into a bason, formed in the bosom of the mountain, and from thence precipitating themselves over a wall of rock, become a brook below. In front is a vast rocky mountain, the barrier of the dell, that opposes itself to all further access. ..."

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