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placename:- | Shap Fells | |
parish |
Shap Rural parish, once in
Westmorland
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county:- | Cumbria | |
hill; fell | ||
coordinates:- |
NY546092 | |
10Km square:- |
NY50 | |
1Km square | NY5309 | |
source:- |
Burrow 1920s
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Road strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, now Cumbria, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s. | ||
... This is some of the loneliest country in England, a rare place for deep snowdrifts even in winters that are mild elsewhere. The road climbs Shap Fell to a height of 1,400 feet, with a bog at the top and then a descent to Shap village. This district is the place of origin of those great boulders of Shap granite whose presence in widely separated parts of England affords one of the most striking evidences of the glacial epoch of the dim past. Ages before man lived in Britain great glaciers ground their incredible way across the primeval landscape, rolling along with them detached fragments of the rocky mountains whose ultimate shape they helped to fashion. Passengers up the Great North Road may see one of these boulders of Shap granite at Thirsk in North Yorkshire, sixty miles from Shap as the crow flies, and goodness knows how many more miles by the devious ways of glaciers. The name of Shap is famous in English geology. ... | ||
date:- | 1920=1929 | |
period:- | 1920s | |
old map:- |
Garnett 1850s-60s H
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Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. | ||
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Shap Fells | ||
area | ||
placename:- | Shap Fells | |
date:- | 1850=1869 | |
period:- | 19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s | |
old map:- |
Ford 1839 map
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. | ||
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SHAP FELLS | ||
Hill hachuring. | ||
placename:- | Shap Fells | |
county:- | Westmoreland | |
date:- | 1839 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
old map:- |
Ford 1839 map
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Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839. | ||
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SHAP FELLS | ||
Hill hachuring. | ||
placename:- | Shap Fells | |
county:- | Westmoreland | |
date:- | 1839 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1830s | |
descriptive text:- |
Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
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Guidebook, Concise Description of the English Lakes, later A Description of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirky Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823 onwards. | ||
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Page 151:- | ||
... Another variety of granite with reddish felspar in large crystals, is found on Shap Fells, and may be observed in situ on the road side near Wasdale Bridge, about four miles south of Shap. | ||
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Page 161:- | ||
A superincumbent bed of limestone, by some called the mountain, by others the upper transition limestone, mantles round these mountains, in a position unconformable to the strata of the slaty and other rocks upon which it reposes. It bassets out near ... Dacre, Lowther and Shap; ... | ||
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Bowlder stones are often met with, far removed from their native rock, but do not appear to have been carried over high mountain ridges. The granite blocks from Shap Fells are carried over a great part of Westmorland; but are not found in the | ||
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Page 164:- | ||
neighbourhood of the lakes. ... | ||
date:- | 1823 | |
period:- | 19th century, early; 1820s | |
old map:- |
West 1784 map
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A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, now Cumbria, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, included in the Guide to the Lakes by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Westmorland, and in London, from the 3rd edition 1784, to 1821. | ||
SHAPFELLS | ||
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placename:- | Shapfells | |
county:- | Westmorland | |
descriptive text:- |
West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
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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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[Shap Fells] a dreary, melancholy tract of twelve miles [1]. ... | ||
[1] This elevated tract being near the centre of Westmorland, and where we may suppose its Genius is most likely to sit enthroned, it may afford the reader a seasonable amusement to peruse in this place a little ode, addressed to that imaginary being, by a late elegant bard, when on one of his visits to his native country. | ||
ODE | ||
To the Genius of Westmorland. | ||
Hail, hidden Power of these wild groves, / These uncouth rocks and mountains grey; / Where oft, as fades the closing day, / The family of fancy roves. | ||
In what lone cave, what secret cell, / Coeval with the birth of time, / Wrapt in high cares, and thought sublime, / In awful silence dost thou dwell! | ||
Oft in the depth of winter's reign, / As blew the dark winds o'er the dale, / Moaning along the distant gale, / Has fancy heard thy voice complain. | ||
Oft in the dark wood's lonely way, / Swift has she seen thee glancing by; / Or down the summer evening sky, / Sporting in clouds of gilded day. | ||
I caught from thee the sacred fire, / That glow'd within my youthful breast;- / Those thoughts too high to be express'd, / Genius, if thou didst once inspire. | ||
O! pleas'd, accept this votive lay, / That in my native shade retir'd, / And once, once more by thee inspir'd, / In gratitude I pay. | ||
Langhorne's Effusions of Friendship and Fancy Vol.1, Let.25. X. | ||
person:- | : Genius of Westmorland | |
person:- | : Westmorland, Genius of | |
date:- | 1778 | |
period:- | 18th century, late; 1770s | |
old map:- |
Jefferys 1770 (Wmd)
Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) | |
Map, The County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed by J Ainslie and perhaps T Donald, engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770. | ||
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BIRBECK FELLS | ||
area | ||
Map, The County of Westmoreland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed by J Ainslie and perhaps T Donald, engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770. | ||
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SHAPP FELLS | ||
hill hachuring; hill or mountain | ||
placename:- | Birbeck Fells | |
county:- | Westmorland | |
date:- | 1770 | |
period:- | 18th century, late; 1770s | |
descriptive text:- |
Defoe 1724-26
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Travel book, Tour through England and Wales, by Daniel Defoe, published in parts, London, 1724-26. | ||
... this terrible aspect of the hills, when having passed Kendal, ... | ||
date:- | 1724=1726 | |
period:- | 18th century, early; 1720s | |
old print:- |
MacBride 1922
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Wild Lakeland, by MacKenzie MacBride illustrated by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1922-28. | ||
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Print, colour, Shap Abbey and Fells, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, 4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928. | ||
Tipped in opposite p.32 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride. | ||
printed at bottom:- | ||
SHAP ABBEY AND FELLS | ||
signed at lower left:- | ||
A. HEATON COOPER | ||
placename:- | Shap Fells | |
date:- | 1922 | |
period:- | 1920s | |
hearsay |
The first sod of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway was cut
on Shap Fell, 1844.
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![]() | Great Yarlside, Shap Rural | |
![]() | Grey Bull, Shap Rural | |
![]() | Harrop Pike, Longsleddale | |
![]() | Hause Hill, Orton S | |
![]() | Little Yarlside, Shap Rural | |
![]() | Oddendale Nab, Shap Rural | |
![]() | Saddle Crags, Shap Rural | |
![]() | Shap Pink Quarry, Shap Rural | |
![]() | Sleddale Pike, Shap Rural | |
![]() | To Stone, Shap Rural | |
![]() | Tongue Rigg, Shap Rural | |
![]() | trig point, NY5255207588 | |
![]() | Wasdale Crag, Shap Rural | |
![]() | weather station, Orton S | |
![]() | Widepot, Shap Rural | |
![]() | Yarlside Crag, Shap Rural | |
Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013 | ||