Blea Tarn, Lakes | ||
runs into:- | Bleamoss Beck | |
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Blea Tarn | ||
locality:- | Little Langdale | |
civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | tarn | |
coordinates:- | NY29300441 (etc) | |
1Km square:- | NY2904 | |
10Km square:- | NY20 | |
altitude:- | 600 feet | |
altitude:- | 183m | |
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BSB21.jpg (taken 1.2.2010) BOD08.jpg (taken 3.9.2007) |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 25 11) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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evidence:- | old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) |
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source data:- | Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1
mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas
Jefferys, London, 1770. J5NY20NE.jpg outline with form lines; lake or tarn item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles
to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805. CY24NY20.jpg "Blea Tarn" outline with shore form lines; lake or tarn item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Cooper 1808 |
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source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale
about 9 miles to 1 inch, by H Cooper, 1808, published by R
Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London, 1808. click to enlarge COP4.jpg outline, shaded; lake item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old text:- Green 1810 placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature,
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10,
published 1810. goto source page 103:- "... Langdale Pikes displaying vast grandeur, are soon in view; and between the Pikes and the eye, a little lake, called Blea Tarn, if unagitated, will reflect them; ..." |
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evidence:- | old text:- Wordsworth 1810 placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes, later A
Guide through the District of The Lakes, by William Wordsworth,
1810-35. goto source page viii "... to Blea Tarn. The scene in which this small piece of water lies, suggested to the Author the following description, (given in his Poem of the Excursion) supposing the spectator to look down upon it, not from the road, but from one of its elevated sides." "--- "Behold! Beneath our feet, a little lowly Vale, A lowly Vale, and yet uplifted high Among the mountains; even as if the spot Had been, from eldest time by wish of theirs, So placed, to be shut out from all the world! Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an Urn; With rocks encompassed, save that to the South Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close; A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glittered in the sun, And one bare Dwelling; one Abode, no more!" goto source page ix "It seemed the home of poverty and toil, Though not of want: the little fields, made green By husbandry of many thrifty years, Paid cheerful tribute to the moorland House. - There crows the Cock, single in his domain: The small birds find in spring no thicket there To shroud them; only from the neighbouring Vales The Cuckoo, straggling up to the hill tops, Shouteth faint tidings of some gladder place."" "..." |
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evidence:- | old print:- Green 1814 (plate 13) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Blea Tarn, Little Langdale, Westmorland, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. click to enlarge GN0913.jpg The Langdale Pikes behind. Plate 13 in Sixty Small Prints. printed at top right:- "13" printed at bottom:- "BLEA TARN. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green." item:- Armitt Library : A6656.13 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Green 1814 (plate 13) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, tinted soft ground etching, Blea Tarn, Little Langdale, Westmorland, by William
Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. click to enlarge GN1013.jpg The Langdale Pikes behind. Plate 13 in Sixty Small Prints. printed at top right:- "13" printed at bottom:- "BLEA TARN. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green." item:- Armitt Library : A6653.13 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Green 1815 placename:- Blea Tarn item:- sheep |
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source data:- | Print, coloured aquatint, Blea Tarn, Little Langdale, Westmorland, by William Green,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1815. click to enlarge GN0512.jpg Plate 13 in Lake Scenery. printed at upper right:- "13" printed at bottom:- "BLEA TARN. / Published at Ambleside, June 1, 1815, by Wm. Green." item:- Armitt Library : A6646.12 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Otley 1818 placename:- Blea tarn |
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source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes,
Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to
1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies,
Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick,
Cumberland, et al, 1833. OT02NY20.jpg item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto source Page 33:- "... Blea Tarn, lying on the high ground between the two vales of Great and Little Langdale, has a small sequestered farm adjoining, and called by its name. A view of this piece of water is enriched by the superb appearance of Langdale Pikes. ..." |
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evidence:- | old map:- Leigh 1830 map |
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source data:- | Map, Grasmere Rydal and Langdale, scale about 1.5 miles to 1
inch, engraved by Josiah Neele, 352 Strand, published by Leigh
and Son, 421 Strand, London, about 1830. click to enlarge LE04.jpg item:- JandMN : 1.3 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by
Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W
Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William
Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman,
Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd,
Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839. goto source Page 37:- "..." "Blea Tarn, the next object, is on the heights between the Langdales, and is enriched by the Pikes, Bowfell being in direct prospect," "'A quiet, treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glitter'd in the sun, And on bare dwelling, one abode, no more!'" |
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evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Drawing, pencil, Blea Tarn and the Langdale Pikes, Langdale, Westmorland, by Theophilus
Lindsey Aspland, 1849. click to enlarge AS0154.jpg "Blea Tarn" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.487.54 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Drawing, pencil, Blea Tarn and hills, Little Langdale, Westmorland, by Theophilus
Lindsey Aspland, 1849. click to enlarge AS0155.jpg "Blea tarn" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.487.55 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and
Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John
Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s. GAR2NY20.jpg "Blea T." outline with shore form lines, lake or tarn item:- JandMN : 82.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Nelson 1853 (edn 1880s) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, uncoloured, Blea Tarn, Langdale, Westmorland, published by Thomas Nelson and
Sons, London, 1853 edn 1880s? click to enlarge NS0319.jpg On p.49 of Views of the English Lakes, and Tourists Guide to the English Lakes. printed at bottom:- "BLEA TARN." item:- JandMN : 474.20 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print with text:- Pyne 1853 placename:- Blea Tarn ??? |
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source data:- | Print, tinted lithograph, Langdale Pikes, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by James Baker
Pyne, engraved by W Gauci, published by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, Lancashire,
1853. click to enlarge PYN213.jpg "PAINTED BY J. B. PYNE. / W. GAUCI LITH. / MANCHESTER, PUBLISHED BY THOMAS AGNEW & SONS, 1853. / Langdale Pikes / M & N HANHART IMPT." From the descriptive text:- "THIS view is taken looking due north from Blea Tarn, a lakelet on Little Langdale. The name Tarn implies a small sheet of water, usually high up among the mountains. Langdale Pikes ... The higher Pike is designated Harrison Stickle, and is 2400 feet in height; the lower one is known as Pike o' Stickle, amd is some hundred feet less elevation. Stickle signifies an abrupt, sharp, pyramidal peak; from the German word stachel, a sharp point. ..." "Blea Tarn has been commemorated by Mr. Wordsworth in his "Excursion." he supposes the spectator to look down upon it, not from the road, but from one of its elevated sides:-" "" ""Beneath our feet a little lowly vale," "A lowly vale, and yet uplifted high" "Among the mountains: even as if the spot" "Had been from earliest time, by wish of theirs," "So placed to be shut out from all the world!" "Urn-like it was in shape - deep as an urn," "With rocks encompassed, save that to the south" "Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge" "Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close;" "A quiet, treeless nook, with two green fields," "A liquid pool that glittered in the sun," "And one bare dwelling - one abode, no more!"" item:- Armitt Library : A6678.14 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Pyne 1853 |
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source data:- | Print, coloured lithograph, Langdale Pikes, Great Langdale, Westmorland, by James
Baker Pyne, engraved by W Gauci, published by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Manchester, Lancashire,
1853. click to enlarge PYN413.jpg item:- Armitt Library : A6677.14 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 item:- poem; Excursion, The; stone, Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | 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 1855-76. goto source Page 148:- "... the valley in which Blea Tarn lies,- the scene of those books of Wordsworth's Excursion which relate to the Solitary. The very rough road scrambles up from Langdale, by Wall End, to the upland vale where the single farmhouse is, and the tarn, and the stone, "like a ship, with keel upturned," which is lodged in a stream near to the tarn. Some people have unaccountably fixed on the Bowder Stone to answer this description; but, besides that the Bowder Stone is far away, it rests on its edge, instead of its "keel" being "upturned." Since the Excursion was written, large plantations of larch have arisen; but they do not much ameliorate the desolation of the place. ..." |
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evidence:- | old print:- Nelson 1859 placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, Nelson print, Blea Tarn, Little Langdale, Westmorland, published by T Nelson
and Sons, London etc, 1859. click to enlarge NS0508.jpg printed, bottom "BLEA TARN." printed, top "Langdale Pikes" item:- Armitt Library : 2003.13.8 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Payn 1867 placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Photograph, sepia, Blea Tarn, Little Langdale, Westmorland, by Garnett and Sproat,
published by J Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1867. click to enlarge PN0321.jpg Tipped in opposite p.43 of The Lakes in Sunshine, text by James Payn. printed at bottom:- "BLEA TARN, LITTLE LANGDALE." item:- Fell and Rock Climbing Club : 184.21 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- snow |
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source data:- | Photograph, black and white, winter, Blea Tarn, Langdale, Westmorland, by Herbert
Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s? click to enlarge HB0958.jpg embossed at mount:- "Herbert Bell / AMBLESIDE" item:- Armitt Library : 1958.4269 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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source data:- | Photograph, sepia, Blea Tarn in Little Langdale, the Langdale Pikes behind, Langdale,
Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlarge HB0878.jpg internegative at lower left:- "H. Bell" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS549 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- reflections |
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source data:- | Photograph, sepia, Blea Tarn and the Langdale Pikes, Langdale, Westmorland, by Herbert
Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlarge HB0914.jpg internegative at lower left:- "H. Bell" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS589 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- reflections |
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source data:- | Photograph, sepia, Blea Tarn and the Langdale Pikes, Langdale, Westmorland, by Herbert
Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlarge HB0915.jpg item:- Armitt Library : ALPS590 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Philip/Wilson 1890s |
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source data:- | Print, engraving, Blea Tarn and Langdale Pikes, published by
George Philip and Son, London, Philip, Son and Nephew,
Liverpool, Lancashire, and Titus Wilson, Kendal, Westmorland,
about 1895. click to enlarge PW1E20.jpg "BLEA TARN AND LANGDALE PIKES." item:- JandMN : 58.21 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, colour halftone, Blea Tarn and Langdale Pikes, Langdale, Westmorland, from
a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black,
London, 2nd edn 1908. click to enlarge HC0169.jpg Opposite p.210 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. printed at tissue opposite the print:- "BLEA TARN AND LANGDALE PIKES" printed at signed lower right:- "[A HEATON COOPER]" item:- JandMN : 468.69 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) placename:- Blea Tarn item:- rain |
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source data:- | Print, colour halftone, A Sudden Shower, Blea Tarn, Langdale? Westmorland, from a
watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black,
London, 2nd edn 1908. click to enlarge HC0170.jpg Opposite p.212 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. printed at tissue opposite the print:- "A SUDDEN SHOWER, BLEA TARN" printed at signed lower left:- "A HEATON COOPER" item:- JandMN : 468.70 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Reynolds 1915 placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, colour halftone, Blea Tarn and Langdale Pikes, Westmorland, from a painting
by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1915. click to enlarge REY607.jpg "A HEATON COOPER" "BLEA TARN AND LANGDALE PIKES." item:- JandMN : 1071.7 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- MacBride 1922 placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, colour, A Sudden Shower, Blea Tarn, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam
and Charles Black, 4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928. click to enlarge MB0126.jpg Tipped in opposite p.181 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride. This looks like the Blea Tarn in Langdale? printed at bottom:- "A SUDDEN SHOWER, BLEA TARN" signed at lower left:- "A. HEATON COOPER" item:- JandMN : 195.28 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- MacBride 1922 placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, colour, Blea Tarn and Langdale Pikes, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by
Adam and Charles Black, 4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928. click to enlarge MB0120.jpg Tipped in opposite p.133 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride. printed at bottom:- "BLEA TARN AND LANGDALE PIKES" signed at lower right:- "A. HEATON COOPER" item:- JandMN : 195.22 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Pearson 1900s placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, The Langdale Pikes, across Blea Tarn, Westmorland, published
by C Arthur Pearson, Henrietta Street, London, 1900s. click to enlarge PS1E45.jpg On p.123 of Pearson's Gossipy Guide to the English Lakes and Neighbouring Districts. printed at bottom:- "THE LANGDALE PIKES, ACROSS BLEA TARN. (p.122). / (pike o'Stickle is the summit to the left; Harrison Stickle to the right)." item:- Armitt Library : A1188.52 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Bogg 1898 placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, engraving, Blea Tarn and Langdale Pikes, Lakes, Westmorland, by Gilbert Foster,
published by Edmund Bogg, 3 Woodhouse Lane, and James Miles, Guildford Street, Leeds,
Yorkshire, 1898. click to enlarge BGG166.jpg Included on p.182 of Lakeland and Ribblesdale, by Edmund Bogg. item:- JandMN : 231.66 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, Blea Tarn and Langdale Pikes, Westmorland, engraved by
M Jackson, published late 19th century? click to enlarge PR0348.jpg On page 256 of The Land We Live In. printed at lower left:- "M. JACKSON. SC" printed at bottom:- "11.- BLEA TARN AND LANGDALE PIKES." item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.107.348 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, Blea Tarn, Langdales, Lakes, by William Banks, engraved
by W H Lizars, Edinburgh, published by Hudson and Nicholson, Kendal, Westmorland,
1850s-60s? click to enlarge PR0527.jpg printed at bottom left, right, centre:- "Willm. Banks / W. H. Lizars. / BLEA TARN. / Published by Hudson &Nicholson Kendal" item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.107.476 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | outline view:- Tattersall 1836 (version 1869) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, hand coloured, Blea Tarn, Langdales, Westmorland, drawn by George Tattersall,
1836, engraved by W F Topham, published by T J Allman, 463 Oxford Street, London,
1869. click to enlarge TAT203.jpg Included in The Lakes of England, by W F Topham. printed at bottom:- "BLEA TARN." printed at bottom:- "Black Pike. / Wetherlam. / Blake ridge. / Blakerigg." item:- Armitt Library : A1067.3 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | outline view:- Tattersall 1836 placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, engraving, Blea Tarn, Westmorland, drawn by George Tattersall, engraved by
W F Topham, published by Sherwood and Co, Paternoster Row, London, about 1836. click to enlarge TAT108.jpg The print is captioned with mountain names and acts as an outline view. Tipped in opposite p.41 of The Lakes of England, by George Tattersall. printed at bottom:- "BLEA TARN." printed at bottom left to right:- "Black Pike. / Wetherlam. / Blake ridge. / Blakerigg." item:- Armitt Library : A1204.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Rose 1832-35 (vol.1 no.25) |
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source data:- | Print, engraving, Blea Tarn, Westmorland, by Thomas Allom, engraved by A W Graham,
1832. click to enlarge PR0405.jpg Originally vol.1 no.25 in Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated, with descriptions by Thomas Rose, published by H Fisher, R Fisher, and P Jackson, Newgate, London, about 1835. item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.107.398 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, etching? Blea Tarn, from Lingmoor, Westmorland, by Harry Goodwin, published
by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890. click to enlarge PR1603.jpg Tipped in opposite p.174 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. printed at lower centre:- "A liquid pool that glittered in the sun" item:- JandMN : 382.33 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) placename:- Blea Tarn |
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source data:- | Print, etching? Blea Tarn, with the Langdale Pikes, Westmorland, by Harry Goodwin,
published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890. click to enlarge PR1604.jpg Tipped in opposite p.178 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. printed at lower centre:- "Blea Tarn / two huge Peaks / That from some other vale peered into this." item:- JandMN : 382.34 Image © see bottom of page |
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BSC84.jpg (taken 1.2.2010) Click to enlarge BSC69.jpg (taken 1.2.2010) BSB14.jpg (taken 1.2.2010) BLK25.jpg (taken 17.11.2005) BXG91.jpg Side Pike beyond. (taken 3.9.2012) |
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