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| Dora's Field, Rydal | ||
| Dora's Field | ||
| Rashfield | ||
| Rash Field | ||
| locality:- | Rydal | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | locality | |
| coordinates:- | NY363062 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3606 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, Dora's Field, Rydal, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0662.jpg item:- Armitt Library : ALPS325 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) placename:- Dora's Field |
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| source data:- | Print, etching? Dora's Field, Rydal, Westmorland, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan
Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890. click to enlargePR1609.jpg Tipped in opposite p.198 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. printed at lower centre:- "An elfin pool, so sheltered that its rest / No winds disturb" item:- JandMN : 382.39 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Plot of land bought by William Wordsworth. |
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| Intended as a site for a house for his daughter Dora? OR intended for a house for
himself if ever he ceased renting, which he never did, and given to Dora for her pony? |
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| Its proper name is the Rash Field, on account of the rushes that grew there. It's
now full of daffodils. |
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