What is recorded here
This slate commemorative plaque records: Jonathan Otley's Steps He lived and worked in rooms up t'steps between 1797 and 1853 He repaired clocks, wrote guide books and researched into the meteorology, mineralogy, topography and the botany of the Lake District. He was the first person to decipher and describe the geological suture of the District and became knows as "the father of Lake District geology"
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- N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Graham Hogg, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Rose and Trev Clough, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ian Capper, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Adrian Taylor, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Dave Thompson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Samantha Waddington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Peter Worrell, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- David Brown, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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