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Millennium Plaque, Loweswater
Millennium Plaque
locality:-   Loweswater
civil parish:-   Loweswater (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   viewpoint
locality type:-   monument
locality type:-   outline view
locality type:-   millennium project
coordinates:-   NY14022102
1Km square:-   NY1421
10Km square:-   NY12

MN photo:-  
A relief model map, a different sort of outline view; modelled by D Mellor, cast by B Porter.

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BVF43.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  
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BVF44.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  
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BVF45.jpg  Plaque, mountain names and heights, etc.
(taken 17.8.2011)  
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BVF46.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  
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BVF47.jpg (taken 17.8.2011)  
The mountains are numbered on the model, keyed to a plaque:-
"I - MELLBREAK ... 512m (1676') / II - WHITESIDE ... 707m (2319') / III - GRASMOOR ... 852m (2795') / IIII - WHITELESS PIKE ... 660m (21665') / V - ROBINSON ... 737m (2417') / VI - BRANDRETH ... 715M (2344') / ERECTED BY LOWESWATER / PARISH COUNCIL WITH ADDITIONAL / FUNDING BY THE L.D.N.P.A. AND / OTHER BENEFACTORS / TO COMMEMORATE THE / MILLENNIUM 2000 / 355m (1164') ... RANNERDALE KNOTTS - VII / 807m (2647') ... HIGH STILE - VIII / 744m (2440') ... HIGH CRAG - IX / 597m (1958') ... HAY STACKS - X / 801m (2627') ... GREEN GABLE - XII / 899m (2949') ... GREAT GABLE - XII"

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