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High Peel Near, Colton
High Peel Near
site name:-   Coniston Water
civil parish:-   Colton (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   headland
coordinates:-   SD29529173
1Km square:-   SD2991
10Km square:-   SD29

evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Con) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Coniston Lake, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1788, version published 1809.
image
CTESD29V.jpg
headland 
item:-  JandMN : 182.5
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BTI40.jpg  Cow wheat, Melampyrum pratense
(taken 13.8.2010)  

hearsay:-  
Referred to as Darien by Arthur Ransome.

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