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At Ouzebridge is a pleasant house of John Christian's, Esq;
situated upon a hill, with a pretty garden before it. It,
with an estate belonging to it, was purchased by Mrs
Christian (when Miss Curwen,) for a Summer-seat, but
afterwards purchasing the large island upon Winandermere,
she totally neglected it.
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Armathwaite
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At a little distance is Armathwaite, the seat of J.
Spedding, Esq: It is situated on a rising ground, which has
a gentle declivity to the Lake; the building is neat, being
of red freestone, and has from the front a pleasant view of
the Lake, Wythop-Brows, the barren side of Skiddow, and the
cluster of mountains called Newland-Fells: when Skiddow is
enlightened by the evening sun, its appearance is not so
gloomy as at other times.
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book 3
chapter 2
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Bassenthwaite Lake
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CHAP. II.
BASSENTHWAITE-WATER.
Broad-Water or Bassenthwaite-Water, -- Manor, --
Fisheries, -- Annotations on Mr Gray's Journal, --
Bassenthwaite Village and Chapel, -- Under-Skiddow, or
Brundum, -- Herdwick Sheep, -- Anecdote of a Physician,
-- Return to Keswick, -- Further on Keswick, -- Journey to
the top of Skiddow.
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Bassenthwaite Lake,
fishing
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THE Lake Broad-Water, commonly called Bassenthwaite-Water,
is the property of the Earl of Egremont, both for fishing
and navigation; for in the year 1772 the right to this Lake
was tried at the Assizes holden at Carlisle, in a cause
between the Earl of Egremont plaintiff; (or his trustees or
agents, I cannot tell which, though I attended and drew the
plans for the Earl's counsel, as the Earl then wanted four
months of age, for he was born the 7th December 1751,) and
Sir Gilfrid Lawson, Baronet, John Spedding, Esq; Thomas
Storey, Esq; and others, the freeholders of Bassenthwaite,
defendants, when the following issues were found for the
Earl, viz.
That the said water called Broad-Water, and every part
thereof, is the freehold of the Earl of Egremont.
That the Earl is seised of a separate fishery in the whole;
except three draughts, viz. Ewes-Bridge, Stone-Wall,
Eller-Stile, or Eller-Lake, wherein John Spedding, Esq; hath
the free fishery in common with the said Earl; and as that
owner of the fishery, he the said Earl and his tenants are
intitled to the privilege of drawing and landing their nets
used in the said fishery upon any of the grounds adjoining
the Lake.
And that the earl is entitled to the sole navigation of the
Lake, and hath liberty to land goods upon any of the grounds
adjoining the Lake out of any boat or vessel navigating upon
the Lake.
Those issues appeared to me to be a very great hardship upon
the inhabitants, and very little to the advantage to the
Earl, (who does not make twenty shillings a year of it:)
many of them keep boats for pleasure, and navigating now and
then a little wood, hay, straw, &c. and also went a
fishing at pleasure. These were not the poorer sort,
therefore could not be said to encourage idleness; as it is
not worth building a boat for the sake of fishing only, here
being no fish but pike and perch, and those when caught sell
only for a penny a pound: yet a man, with one or two of his
sons, and perhaps a visiting relation, could not go upon the
Lake in an evening for
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amusement,
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gazetteer links
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-- "Armathwaite" -- Armathwaite Hall
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-- "Broad Water" -- Bassenthwaite Lake
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-- "Ouzebridge" -- (house, Ouse Bridge)
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