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Easedale Beck
runs into:-    Rothay, River
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY3308 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY30

photograph
BRV06.jpg  At Goody Bridge,
(taken 11.11.2009)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) 
placename:-  Easedale Beck
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.
evidence:-   old map:- Saxton 1579
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645.
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Sax9NY30.jpg
item:-  private collection : 2
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evidence:-   old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley, London, 1611-12.
image
SP14NY31.jpg
double line, from tarn to Grasmere 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.5
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evidence:-   old map:- Jansson 1646
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Cumbria and Westmoria, ie Cumberland and Westmorland, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Jansson, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1646.
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JAN3NY30.jpg
Single wiggly line. 
item:-  JandMN : 88
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evidence:-   old map:- Seller 1694 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1 inch, by John Seller, 1694.
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SEL7.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.87
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evidence:-   old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) 
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.
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MD10NY30.jpg
From Easedale tarn. 
item:-  JandMN : 24
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evidence:-   old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.
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BO18NY20.jpg
wiggly line, from Easedale Tarn, into Grasmere lake 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
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.
image
J5NY30NW.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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CY24NY30.jpg
river running into the Rothay 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Cooper 1808
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.
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COP4.jpg
tapering wiggly line; river 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2007.38.53
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 25) 
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Goody Bridge in Grasmere, the house, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
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GN1225.jpg
Plate 25 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "25"
printed at bottom:-  "GOODY BRIDGE IN GRASMERE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.25
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Easedale Beck, Easedale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0517.jpg
internegative at lower left:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS180
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  water gate
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Easedale Beck, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0519.jpg
internegative at lower left:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS182
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evidence:-   old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) 
source data:-   Print, etching? Emma's Dell, Easedale, Westmorland, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
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PR1587.jpg
Tipped in opposite p.78 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. 
printed at lower centre:-  "Emma's Dell"
item:-  JandMN : 382.17
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places:-  
NY33300806 Goody Bridge (Lakes)
NY32780826 New Bridge (Lakes)
NY3108 Sour Milk Gill (Lakes)
NY33050818 Steel Bridge (Lakes)
NY33160800 stepping stones, Grasmere (Lakes)
NY32160875 Willy Goodwaller Bridge (Lakes) L out of sight
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