Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Catstye Cam
	parish	Patterdale parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
		hill
	Altitude	2920 feet
	coordinates:-	NY34811582
	10Km square:-	NY31
	1Km square	NY3415
		Catstye Cam -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 20.6.2011
		Catstye Cam -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 19.10.2011
	old print:-	Otley 1823 (4th edn 1830)
		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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		The Mountains of Ulswater: / as seen from Pooley Bridge.
		Swarth Fell / Cawdale Moor / Winter Crag / Dove Crags / Hallen Fell, and Place Fell / Stone Cross Pike / Birk Fell / Dolly Waggon Pike / Nether Cove Head / Helvellyn High Man / Catchety Cam / Helvellyn Low Man / Herring Pike / Keppel Cove Head / Raise / Greenside / Gowbarrow
	placename:-	Catchety Cam
	date:-	1830
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	old print:-	Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849)
		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.
		Engraving, outline view of mountains, Ullswater from Pooley Bridge, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.12 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
	placename:-	Catchety Cam
	date:-	1849
	period:-	19th century, early; 1840s
	old print:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834)
		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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		... Swirrel Edge, which branches off from Helvellyn and is terminated by a peak called Catsty Cam, modernized into Catchedecam; ...
		...
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	placename:-	Catsty Cam
	other name:-	Catchedecam
	other name:-	Catchety Cam
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	descriptive text:-	West 1778 (11th edn 1821)
		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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		... Helvellyn and Cachidecam are ... according to Wythburn shepherds, much higher than Skiddaw. It is, however, certain that these mountains retain snow many weeks after Skiddaw; ...
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		Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
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		... [from Castlerigg] ... the summits of Cachidecam (called by Camden Casticand) and Helvellyn, said to be as high as Skiddaw, and to rise from a much higher base.
	placename:-	Cachidecam
	other name:-	Casticand
	date:-	1769; 1778
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s; 1770s
	descriptive text:-	Simpson 1746
		The three volumes of maps and descriptive text published as 'The Agreeable Historian, or the Compleat English Traveller ...', by Samuel Simpson, 1746.
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		...
		Some of the Mountains in Cumberland are very remarkable for their Height, viz. ... The third is Lauvellin, the fourth Castinand, of which, and the former, they have a proverbial Speech among them:
		Skiddaw, Lauvellin, and Castinand,
		Are th' highest Hills in all England.
	placename:-	Casticand
	date:-	1746
	period:-	18th century, early; 1740s
	old print:-	Jenkinson 1875
		Guide book, A Practical Guide to the English Lake District, by Henry Irwin Jenkinson, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 4th edition 1875.
		Print, lithograph, outline view, Panoramic Sketches from Helvellyn, Westmorland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
		... Catchedecam ...
	placename:-	Catchedecam
	date:-	1875
	period:-	19th century, late
		photographs
		Catstye Cam -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 17.3.2008
		Catstye Cam -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 20.6.2011
		Catstye Cam -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 20.6.2011
		Catstye Cam -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 17.10.2007
		Catstye Cam -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 19.10.2011
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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