Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Swirral Edge
	site name:-	Helvellyn
	parish	Patterdale parish, once in Westmorland
	county:-	Cumbria
	coordinates:-	NY343154
	10Km square:-	NY31
	1Km square	NY3415
		Swirral Edge -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 9.7.2009
		Swirral Edge -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 9.7.2009
	text:-	Mason 1907 (edn 1930)
		Page 20:-
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		... [Red Tarn] ... is shut in between two sloping walls of rock, the Striding Edge, and the Swirral Edge,- edges indeed, for they are simply steep, narrow, broken pathways on the top of each wall of rock. If you are a good climber, and not apt to become giddy,
		Page 21:-
		you may make your way up by one of these edges; but beware of a false step on either side of the narrow pathway; one such step, and you are plunged down a precipice of a hundred feet.
	date:-	1907
	period:-	1900s
	descriptive text:-	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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		... Keppel Cove Tarn is ... separated from Red Tarn by a narrow mountain ridge, called Swirrel Edge, which branches off from Helvellyn and is terminated by a peak called Catsty Cam, ...
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		Page 60:-
		... A less difficult way [than Striding Edge] is to leave the tarn on the left hand, ascending Swirrel Edge, which is comparatively smooth; yet here is a little rocky scrambling to gain the top of the precipice; in the midst of which it will be well to halt, and take a view of Bassenthwaite Lake with its environs; which cannot be seem from the highest part of the mountain.
	placename:-	Swirrel Edge
	date:-	1823
	period:-	19th century, early; 1820s
	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.
		... Swirrel Edge ...
	placename:-	Swirrel Edge
	date:-	1875
	period:-	19th century, late
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		Swirral Edge -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 20.6.2011
		Swirral Edge -- Helvellyn -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 20.6.2011
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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