Borrowdale Yews, Borrowdale | ||
Borrowdale Yews | ||
locality:- | Seathwaite | |
locality:- | Borrowdale | |
civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | tree | |
locality type:- | yew | |
coordinates:- | NY23641254 (approx) | |
1Km square:- | NY2312 | |
10Km square:- | NY21 | |
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BLY06.jpg (taken 24.4.2006) |
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evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 13) placename:- Borrowdale Yews |
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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 print:- Nelson 1853 (edn 1880s) placename:- Borrowdale Yews item:- yew tree |
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source data:- | Print, uncoloured, The Borrowdale Yews, Borrowdale, Cumberland, published by Thomas
Nelson and Sons, London, 1853 edn 1880s? click to enlarge NS0305.jpg On p.19 of Views of the English Lakes, and Tourists Guide to the English Lakes. printed at bottom:- "THE BORROWDALE YEWS." item:- JandMN : 474.6 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 item:- fraternal four |
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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 156:- "... amidst the copsewood, are the dark tops of the Borrowdale yews to be seen,- the "fraternal four," which, as Wordsworth tells us, form "one solemn and capacious grove." The size attained by the yew in this district is astonishing. One which for many years lay prostrate at the other end of Borrowdale, measured nine yards in circumference, and contained 1,460 feet of wood. The famous Lorton yew (p.87.) has about the same girth; and one of these four measures seven yards round, at four feet from the ground." |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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source data:- | Photograph, black and white, the Borrowdale Yews, Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Cumberland,
by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlarge HB0392.jpg internegative at lower left:- "H. Bell" stamped at reverse:- "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS47 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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source data:- | Photograph, black and white, the Borrowdale Yews, Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Cumberland,
by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlarge HB0393.jpg stamped at reverse:- "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / [ ]" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS48 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) placename:- Borrowdale Yews |
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source data:- | Print, colour halftone, The Borrowdale Yews, evening, Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Cumberland,
from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles
Black, London, 2nd edn 1908. click to enlarge HC0145.jpg Opposite p.130 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. printed at tissue opposite the print:- "THE BORROWDALE YEWS / Evening" item:- JandMN : 468.45 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- MacBride 1922 placename:- Borrowdale Yews |
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source data:- | Print, colour, The Borrowdale Yews, by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and
Charles Black, 4-6 Soho Square, London, 2nd edn 1928. click to enlarge MB0119.jpg Tipped in opposite p.128 in Wild Lakeland by MacKenzie MacBride. printed at bottom:- "THE BORROWDALE YEWS" signed at lower left:- "A. HEATON COOPER" item:- JandMN : 195.21 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) placename:- Borrowdale Yews |
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source data:- | Print, etching? The Borrowdale Yews, Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by Harry
Goodwin, 1883, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London,
1890. click to enlarge PR1621.jpg Tipped in opposite p.252 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. printed at lower centre:- "The Borrowdale Yews" printed at lower right:- "HG 1883" item:- JandMN : 382.51 Image © see bottom of page |
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evidence:- | old print:- item:- yew; tree item:- botany |
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source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, Yew Trees, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by ?B Foster, engraved
by E Evans, 1850s-60s? click to enlarge PR0488.jpg printed at bottom left, right, centre:- "[B] Foster / E. EVANS SC. / YEW TREES - BORROWDALE" item:- Dove Cottage : 2008.107.437 Image © see bottom of page |
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Group of ancient yews, Taxus baccata, at Borrowdale. William Wordsworth described
them in a poem, 1803:- |
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"Poems of the Imagination" |
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"... / Worthier still of note / Are those fraternal four at Borrowdale / joined in
one solemn and capacious grove: / Huge trunks and each particular trunk a growth /
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine, ..." |
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The trees were severely damaged by a gale, 1883. |
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Richardson, Keith: 2011: Jack's Yak: River Greta Writer (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN
978 0 9559640 2 2 Bradshaw, Amy: 1991 (after): Ancient Interesting and Unusual Trees of Cumbria: Cumbria Broadleaves (Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9524961 0 0 |
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