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placename:- High Snab Bank
locality:- Derwent Fells
parish Above Derwent parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
hill
coordinates:- NY217186
10Km square:- NY21

1Km square NY2118

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High Snab Bank -- Derwent Fells -- Above Derwent -- Cumbria / -- 22.9.2006
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High Snab Bank -- Derwent Fells -- Above Derwent -- Cumbria / -- The NW end of High Snab Bank with Robinson behind. -- NY22501970 (SW) -- 10.6.2005

descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) -- probably relevant

Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P132, button   goto source.
Page 132:-
... At the upper end of the cultivated part of the vale [Newlands Valley], a green pyramidal hill, divided into waving inclosures, looks down the vale upon Keswick, &c.
date:- 1778
period:- 18th century, late; 1770s

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tiny photograph, 
button to large High Snab Bank -- Derwent Fells -- Above Derwent -- Cumbria / -- NY23591991 (WSW) -- 19.1.2008

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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