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wendyf
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13/07/2011
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I keep trying to identify the distant hills in my view, but there are too many maps involved and I am no good with a compass!
The other night Col did a panaromic view for me, which I will just put up on the site (hopefully). Can anyone name the distant peaks in the Bowland Fells for me?....
Edited by - wendyf on 13/07/2011 11:25:24 AM
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belle
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 11:22
Isit snowing there then?
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Cathy
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 11:25
Maybe a pea soup fog, or did you forget to open your curtains Wendy?
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
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wendyf
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 11:26
You were in there quick Belle! I pressed return by mistake and got a white out....Hang on I'm trying to post my pic.
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thomo
Barlick Born Old Salt
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 11:28
Up in Letcliffe Park there is or was a plinth with a brass plate on top with directional markers and names for all the visible peaks.
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wendyf
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 11:39
The pic is still too big to be accepted, I will have to wait till Col's lunch break to get him to make it smaller.
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Callunna
Revolving Grey Blob
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 11:47
I wonder if Google Earth would be any help? You can set it to superimpose the names of streets etc so maybe it does geographic features too?
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thomo
Barlick Born Old Salt
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 12:15
Mario Maps Lancashire is quite good as well and has physical overlays.
http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/
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wendyf
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 17:51
I tried putting the picture in the topic but it is too small to see anything. Can anyone help please?
Thanks for the advice Thomo & Calunna. I shall have to go on a search for the brass plate next time I am up at Letcliffe. I have gone off Mario since they changed it. Ii seems to be much more difficult to use. Not sure about Google Earth, but I will have a look.
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pluggy
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 18:19
Click Here for Piccie
Its too large for an in-line image. A modern browser will display the whole picture and then zoom in with Drag bars when you click on it.
Need computer work ?
"http://www.stsr.co.uk" 
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wendyf
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 18:38
Thanks Pluggy!
It is quite a dark picture, but the evening light was picking out and separating the different hills very well. I just need a name for one hill and I should be able to work the rest out from the map.
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panbiker
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 22:07
Wendy the brass panorama plate is on a stone plynth on top of the concrete block that once supported the First World War tank that was displayed up there during the inter war years. It's at the top of the hill above the former bandstand and just the other side of what is now the kids play area.
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Posted - 13/07/2011 : 22:34
Just found your picture in the sidebar Wendy. You should be able to establish a point of reference with very simple bearing projections on a map.
With the viewpoint as a base reference point, extend a line out past a known landmarks that you can also identify on the map. One that jumps out at me would be the stack on the mill.You could add another towards the right hand side of the image extending through the bend in the track which I assume will also be a visible point on the map. This will give you two reference points in the distance to work from. You should then be able to identify the main landmarks and hills inbetween the two extrapolated reference points.
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wendyf
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Posted - 14/07/2011 : 16:28
Thanks Ian...I know I should be able to do it, but it beats me every time. What annoys me is that I love maps and can spend hours looking at them. I will try again. The mill chimneys dont seem to be marked on either the 1" or the larger scale....unless I am missing something.
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 15/07/2011 : 06:06
Not many of them left now Wendy. The 1892 25" in the library marks them together with a lot of other artefacts like gas holders.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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panbiker
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Posted - 15/07/2011 : 10:28
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wendyf wrote:
The mill chimneys dont seem to be marked on either the 1" or the larger scale....unless I am missing something.
No you're not Wendy the chimney may not be on but the mill should be. or some other local promentary that you can see on the map and in the photo. Any fixed point that you can identify from your viewpoint will do to establish a line of sight bearing.
I also love maps Wendy. I can study them for ages. I wonder if I get this fascination from my dad, he did cartography as part of his training for the Inteligence Section when he was in Iceland. I have one of his wartime training manuals for map making somewhere in his stuff and a couple of the maps he produced in Iceland for fieldwork.
Edited by - panbiker on 15/07/2011 10:29:05
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