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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 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 6) placename:- Fox Gill |
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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 text:- Martineau 1855 |
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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 sourcePage 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. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, Fox Ghyll, winter, Rydal, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell,
photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0685.jpg internegative at lower right:- "H. Bell" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS348 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s item:- conservatory; greenhouse |
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| source data:- | Photograph, sepia, Fox Ghyll, home of W E Forster, Rydal, Westmorland, by Herbert
Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0684.jpg internegative at lower left:- "H. Bell" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS347 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Fox Ghyll |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "FOX GHYLL / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452623 / NY3632905113" |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- placename:- Fox Ghyll |
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| source data:- | Drawing, ink, Fox Ghyll, Rydal, Westmorland, by Jane Arnold, no date. click to enlargePR1876.jpg "Fox Ghyll." item:- Armitt Library : 1958.3774.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| personal | ||
| person:- | poet; author : de Quincey, Thomas |
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| place:- | home | |
| date:- | 1821 to 1825 |
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| personal | ||
| person:- | : Forster, W E |
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| place:- | home | |
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