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Glencoyne farm, Patterdale
Glencoyne
locality:-   Glencoyne
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY38451869
1Km square:-   NY3818
10Km square:-   NY31

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BOA26.jpg (taken 25.8.2007)  
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CED68.jpg (taken 20.10.2015)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 12 6) 
placename:-  Glencoyne
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:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Lancairn
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.
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"Lancairn"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland
evidence:-   old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Glencairn
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29 Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774.
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"Glencairn"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library
evidence:-   old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Ull) 
placename:-  Glen Coin
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Accurate Map of the Beautiful Lake of Ullswater, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile, by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1800.
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"Glen coin / Mr. Hoskin's"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1959.191.7
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evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ullswater) 
placename:-  Glencoyn
source data:-   Map, A Map of the Lake Ullswater and its Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke, engraved by S J Neele, 352 Strand, published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787.
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"GLENCOYN"
item:-  private collection : 10.4
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 59) 
item:-  chimney
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Farm House at Glen Coin, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
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Plate 59 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "59"
printed at bottom:-  "FARM HOUSE AT GLEN COIN. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.59
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 60) 
placename:-  Glen Coin
item:-  bridge; bracken sledge (?); sledge
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Glen Coin, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
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Plate 60 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "60"
printed at bottom:-  "GLEN COIN. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.60
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evidence:-   old text:- Wordsworth 1810
placename:-  Glencoin
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.
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page xx  "... At the outlet of Gowbarrow Park, we reach a third stream, which flows through a little recess called Glencoin, where lurks a single house, yet visible from the road. Let the Artist or leisurely Traveller turn aside to it, for the buildings and objects around them are romantic and picturesque. ..."
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 51) 
placename:-  Glen Coin
item:-  bridge
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Glen Coin, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 51 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "51"
printed at bottom:-  "GLEN COIN. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.51
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 51) 
placename:-  Glen Coin
item:-  bridge
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Glen Coin, Patterdale, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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Plate 51 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "51"
printed at bottom:-  "GLEN COIN. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.51
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evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Glen Coin
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.
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page 30:-  "..."
"Glen Coin is a farm-house belonging to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk. It is two or three hundred yards out of the road from the Inn at Patterdale to Lyulph's Tower, and between two and three miles from the former place."
"Should the party have no partiality for rude buildings, ..."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
placename:-  Glencoin
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
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Page 9:-  "... Glencoin is a farm placed in a sweet recess, where a brook divides the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. ..."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Glencoin
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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Page 147:-  "... lurking in a recess, is Glencoin, a farm-house belonging to Henry Howard, Esq., in a rich cultivated bottom, with high and splendidly-wooded mountains in the back-ground: ..."
evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Glencoyne
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Glencoyne"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Glencoyne
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"GLENCOYNE / / / PATTERDALE / EDEN / CUMBRIA / II[star] / 452384 / NY3846618685"
evidence:-   old postcard:- 
placename:-  Glencoin Farm
item:-  fireplace; chair; chimney crane
source data:-   Postcard, photograph, kitchen at Glencoin Farm, Patterdale, by Lowe, Patterdale, Westmorland, about 1925.
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ms at inter negative:-  "[ EN] FARM"
printed at reverse:-  "A Half-penny Stamp to be placed here."
stamped at reverse:-  "Lowe, Photographer, Patterdale / Photographic Series, Copyright."
item:-  private collection : 339
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photograph
BOH36.jpg (taken 17.10.2007)  
hearsay:-  
 There is a plaster panel in the farm house:-
"T.H.D.H. 1629"
referring to the Howard Family
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