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Kirk Stone, Patterdale
Kirk Stone
locality:-   Kirkstone Pass
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   stone
coordinates:-   NY40200863 (?) 
1Km square:-   NY4008
10Km square:-   NY40

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We're pretty sure we've located the right stone.
evidence:-   map:- 
source data:-   OS 6 inch maps, fairly modernMarked by small circle, east side of road wall. 
evidence:-   perhaps? descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
placename:-  Highcross
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
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Page 162:-  "... From the top of Kirkston to Ambleside the descent is quick. Some remarkable stones near the gorge of the pass are called Highcross. ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  Kirkstone
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.
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page 111:-  "... Kirkstone. This place takes its name from a sort of cubical stone on the left, called Kirkstone; from which there is an interesting little peep at the lake of Brother Water, which, at intervals, displays itself during the descent into the valley."
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Kirkstone
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 27:-  "... on the summit of the hill [Kirkstone]; near which, on the left, is a cubical sort of stone, called Kirkstone, which gives name to the pass."
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, the Kirk Stone, Kirkstone Pass, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 1852.
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item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.390.32
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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.
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Page 37:-  "... The stranger must not omit to observe near the head of the pass, the fallen rock, ridged like a roof, whose form (like that of a miniature church) has given its name to its precincts. ..."
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, black and white, the Kirk Stone, Kirkstone Pass, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell, photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s.
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internegative at lower right:-  "H. Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS284
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evidence:-   old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) 
source data:-   Print, etching? Brothers Water, from the Kirkstone Pass, Patterdale, Westmorland, by Harry Goodwin, published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890.
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Tipped in opposite p.154 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. 
item:-  JandMN : 382.30
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hearsay:-  
 William Wordsworth, Ode to the Pass of Kirkstone:-
"This block - and yon, whose church-like frame, Gives to this savage Pass its name"
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