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Fox Ghyll, Rydal
Fox Ghyll
locality:-   Rydal
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY36320511 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY3605
10Km square:-   NY30


photograph
BNZ11.jpg (taken 21.8.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 6) 
placename:-  Fox Gill
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 text:- Martineau 1855
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.
image MNU1P055, button  goto source
Page 55:-  "... the gem of a house that he sees,- the cream-coloured one, veiled in roses, with the conservatories beside it, just under the precipice:- that is Foxghyll, the residence of Hornby Roughsedge, Esq. ..."

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, Fox Ghyll, winter, Rydal, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0685.jpg
internegative at lower right:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS348
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
item:-  conservatorygreenhouse
source data:-   Photograph, sepia, Fox Ghyll, home of W E Forster, Rydal, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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HB0684.jpg
internegative at lower left:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS347
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Fox Ghyll
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"FOX GHYLL / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452623 / NY3632905113"

evidence:-   old drawing:- 
placename:-  Fox Ghyll
source data:-   Drawing, ink, Fox Ghyll, Rydal, Westmorland, by Jane Arnold, no date.
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"Fox Ghyll."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.3774.5
Image © see bottom of page

personal
person:-   poetauthor
 : de Quincey, Thomas
place:-   home
date:-   1821
 to 1825

personal
person:-    : Forster, W E
place:-   home

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