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viewpoint, Old Man of Coniston
site name:-   Old Man of Coniston
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   viewpoint
coordinates:-   SD27239782
1Km square:-   SD2797
10Km square:-   SD29

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Coniston Old Man
item:-  latitudelongitudelat and long
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.
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Page 79:-  "STATION IV.- CONISTON OLD MAN."
"Latitude 54° 22′ 20″ N. Longitude 3° 6′ 34″W. Height 2577 feet."
BEARINGS Distances
in miles
Height
in feet
Calf, near Sedbergh 0° E 25 2188
Great Whernside, Kettlewell 72 SE 48 2263
Whernside, near Dent 71 SE 31 2384
Pennygant 70 SE 38 2270
Ingleborough 64 SE 33 2361
Pendle Hill 44 SE 49 1803
Lancaster 31 SE 25
Moel Fammau, Denbigh 4 SW 85 1845
Carnedd Llewellyn, Caernarvon 23 SW 92 3469
Carnedd David do. 23 30″ 93 3427
Snowdon do. 23 40″ 99 3571
Penmaen Mawr do. 24 SW 85 1540
Holyhead Mountain 41 SW 98 709
Black Combe 46 SW 12 1919
Snea Fell 84 SW 55 2004
Burrow Head 64 NW 56
Skiddaw 4 NW 20 3022

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