Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Great Mell Fell
	parish	Hutton parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		hill
	Altitude	1760 feet
	coordinates:-	NY39672538
	10Km square:-	NY32
	1Km square	NY3925
		Great Mell Fell -- Hutton -- Cumbria / -- Dockray and Great Mell Fell. -- 5.2.2007
		Great Mell Fell -- Hutton -- Cumbria / -- From NW. -- 17.2.2007
	source:-	Martineau 1855
		Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-71.
		Page 104:-
		... Mell Fell, the ugliest of hills,- like a tumulus planted all over with larch, grows larger as the traveller proceeds, till he finds he is to make a sharp turn to the right, and pass directly under it. Judging from our own experience, we should say that this part of the journey is always broiling hot or bitterly cold. ...
	placename:-	Mell Fell
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	old map:-	Garnett 1850s-60s H
		Map of the English Lakes, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.
		Mell Fell
		hill hachuring
	placename:-	Mell Fell
	date:-	1850=1869
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s; 1860s
	old map:-	Ford 1839 map
		Map of the Lake District, published in A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, 1839.
		Mell Fell
		Hill hachuring.
	placename:-	Mell Fell
	county:-	Westmoreland
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	descriptive text:-	Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) -- perhaps (height wrong) relevant
		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 160:-
		...
		A conglomerate, composed of rounded stones of various sizes, from the smallest gravel, to the weight of several pounds, held together by a ferruginous, calcareous cement, forms a hill of a parabolic shape, about 1200 feet in height, called Mell Fell; and some lesser elevations extending to the foot of Ullswater. These pebbles are apparently fragments of older rocks, rounded by attrition, and must have been transported from some distance, as their composition does not correspond with the rocks of the
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		neighbourhood. This has been taken by some to belong to the old red sandstone formation; but whether it passes under or only abuts against the adjacent limestone, I have not yet myself had an opportunity of observing; but have been told that their junction may be seen near Shap Abbey; and in a quarry near Greystoke. ...
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	source:-	Otley 1818
		New Map of the District of the Lakes, in Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, published by J Otley, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1818; pblished 1818 to 1850s.
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	placename:-	Mell Fell
		hill
	date:-	1818
	period:-	19th century, early; 1810s
	hearsay	It is said that the last wild cat in Cumbria was killed on Great Mell Fell in the mid 19th century. A fearsome and aggressive beast that attacked man and sheep.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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