Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Walla Crag
	parish	St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		rocks
	coordinates:-	NY275212
	10Km square:-	NY22
	1Km square	NY2721
		Walla Crag -- St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn -- Cumbria / -- Mosaic outline view at Blencathra Field Studies Centre, detail. -- 26.9.2008
		Walla Crag -- St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn -- Cumbria / -- Walla Crag from Blencathra Field Studies Centre; Great Gable lies behind; Castlerigg Stone Cirlce can be seen in a field in front. -- 26.9.2008
	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.
		Plate, opposite p.93:-
		Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from Applethwaite near Keswick, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
		MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM APPLETHWAITE NEAR KESWICK.
		L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr.
		The view is captioned, numbers referring to mountains in the image:-
		1 Wallow Crag, 2 Falcon Crag, 3 Shepherd's Crag / Lowdore below, 4 Glaramara, 5 Brund, 6 Castle Crag, 7 Great End, 8 Scawfell Pike, 9 Catbell, 10, High Stile, 11 Red Pike, 12 Grasmoor, 13 Causey Pike, 14 Melbreak, 15 Grisdale Pike
	placename:-	Wallow Crag
	person:-	artist : Aspland, T L
	person:-	engraver : Banks, W
	person:-	publisher : Garnett, John
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late; 1850s
	descriptive text:-	Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843)
		Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by William Ford, published by Charles Thurnham, London, et al, 1839; published 1839-52.
		Page 59:-
		...
		CASTLEHEAD AND WALLOW CRAG.
		There is a beautiful and entertaining walk to the summit of these, which is gained by proceeding
		Page 59:-
		a short distance on the Borrowdale road, and then turning up the woods to the left. At the commencement is a superb view of Keswick, the church, and Bassenthwaite. On the top are benches, where you may rest, and look over the soft bosom of the lake full into the gorge of Borrowdale, which is the grandest aspect. To the north is Bassenthwaite Water and the stately Skiddaw.
	placename:-	Wallow Crag
	date:-	1839
	period:-	19th century, early; 1830s
	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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		Page 120:-
		... rising ground, over which Wallow Crag shews
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		Page 121:-
		his massive rocky front; ...
		...
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		Page 156:-
		... the more compact dark-coloured rock of Wallow Crag, in which quartz, calcareous spar, chlorite, and epidote, are found in veins. ...
	placename:-	Wallow Crag
	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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		Addendum; Mr Gray's Journal, 1769
		Page 203:-
		Oct. 3. [at Keswick] A heavenly day; rose at seven, and walked out under the conduct of my landlord to Borrowdale; ... drew near the foot of Wallow-cragg, whose bare and rugged brow, cut perpendicularly down above 400 feet, (as I guess, though the people call it much more) awfully overlooks the way. ...
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		[from Fawe Park] ... in front rises Wallow-crag and Castle-hill, the town, the road to Penrith, Skiddaw, and Saddleback. ...
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		Mr Cumberland's Ode to the Sun, 1776
		Page 226:-
		... / And you, triumphal arches, shrink; / Ye temples, tremble; and ye columns, sink; / One nod from Wallow's craggy brow / Shall crush the dome / Of sacerdotal Rome, / And lay her glitt'ring gilded trophies low.
	placename:-	Wallow Cragg
	date:-	1769; 1776
	period:-	18th century, late; 1760s; 1770s
	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 Scawfell Pike, Cumberland, by Edwin A Pettitt, London, published by Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross, London, 1875.
		... Wallow Crag ...
	placename:-	Wallow Crag
	date:-	1875
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Matthew 1866
		Print, engraving, outline view, View from Watendlath Road of Derwent Water and Bassenthwaite, Cumberland, published by J Richardson, Highgate, Kendal, Westmorland, 1866.
		Tipped in before p.1 of The English Lakes, Peaks and Passes, from Kendal to Keswick, by George King Matthew.
		printed at bottom:-
		VIEW FROM WATENDLATH ROAD OF / DERWENT WATER AND BASSENTHWAITE.
		printed at caption to mountains:-
		... Wallow Cra[g ] ...
	placename:-	Wallow Crag
	date:-	1866
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900)
		Guide book, Black's Guide to the English Lakes, published by Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, or Soho Square, London, 1856 to 1900s onwards.
		Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Skiddaw and Derwent Water - Mountains as seen at Lodore Hotel, and Mountains as seen at the Third Gate on Ascending Latrigg on the Way to Skiddaw, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
		... 1 Wallow Crag ...
	placename:-	Wallow Crag
	date:-	1900
	period:-	1900s
	old print:-	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.
		Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains seen from Applethwaite near Keswick, drawn by L Aspland, engraved by W Banks, Edinburgh, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855.
		Folded in opposite p.93 in A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet Martineau.
		The view is captioned, numbers refering to mountains in the image - 1 Wallow Crag, 2 Falcon Crag, 3 Shepherd's Crag / Lowdore below, 4 Glaramara, 5 Brund, 6 Castle Crag, 7 Great End, 8 Scawfell Pike, 9 Catbell, 10, High Stile, 11 Red Pike, 12 Grasmoor, 13 Causey Pike, 14 Melbreak, 15 Grisdale Pike.
		printed at top:-
		MOUNTAINS SEEN FROM APPLETHWAITE NEAR KESWICK.
		printed at bottom left, right:-
		L Aspland Delt. / W Banks Sc Edinr.
	placename:-	Wallow Crag
	date:-	1855
	period:-	19th century, late
	old print:-	Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846)
		Guide book, Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes, published by Adam and Charles Blck, North Bridge, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, 1841 to 1888.
		Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen at Lowdore Inn, and Mountains as seen at the Third Gate on Ascending Latrigg on the Way to Skiddaw, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
		... 1 Wallow Crag ...
	placename:-	Wallow Crag
	date:-	1844
	period:-	19th century, early
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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