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| Dovedale Beck | ||||
| runs into:- |  Kirkstone Beck |
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| civil parish:- | Patterdale (formerly Westmorland) | |||
| county:- | Cumbria | |||
| locality type:- | river | |||
| 1Km square:- | NY3811 (etc) | |||
| 10Km square:- | NY31 | |||
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 CAS32.jpg (taken 21.5.2014) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 19 7) placename:- Hartsop Beck |
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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:- | probably old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert
Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John
Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695. MD10NY41.jpg Running into Brothers Water. item:- JandMN : 24 Image © see bottom of page |
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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. J5NY41SW.jpg single or double wiggly line; river item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) |
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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. CY24NY41.jpg river running into the Kirkstone Beck item:- JandMN : 129 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old painting:- Green 1790s-1820s |
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| source data:- | Painting, watercolour, Dovedale, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside,
Westmorland, 1800-10s? click to enlargePR1747.jpg item:- Dove Cottage : 2001.75.9 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | probably old print:- Green 1810 (plate 55) |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Dove Crag in Hartsope, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William
Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808. click to enlargeGN1255.jpg Plate 55 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. printed at top right:- "55" printed at bottom:- "DOVE CRAG IN HARTSOPE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808." watermark:- "J WHATMAN / 1813" item:- Armitt Library : A6641.55 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Wordsworth 1810 |
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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 xxii "[is]sues from a cove richly decorated with native wood. This spot is, I believe, never explored by Travellers; but, from these sylvan rocky recesses, whoever looks back on the gleaming surface of Brotherswater, or forward to the precipitous sides and lofty ridges of Dove Crag, &c. will be equally pleased with the beauty, the grandeur, and the wildness of the scenery." |
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| evidence:- | old text, old text:- Green 1814 |
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| source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with
text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by
William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814. goto source page 27:- "..." "Under Dove Crag, a stupendous rock three miles west of Brother Water, runs a stream, which after a steep descent" Green 1814 goto sourcepage 28:- "serpentines sweetly down the vale, amidst rich assemblage of beautiful trees, by Hartsope Hall (a picturesque old farm-house) to Brother Water." |
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