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| Lancrigg, Grasmere | ||
| Lancrigg | ||
| locality:- | Easedale | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY33020849 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3308 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) placename:- Lancrigg |
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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 print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) |
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| source data:- | Print, etching? Lancrigg Terrace, Lancrigg, Easedale, Westmorland, by Harry Goodwin,
published by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890. click to enlargePR1595.jpg Tipped in opposite p.126 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. printed at lower centre:- "Lancrigg Terrace" item:- JandMN : 382.25 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Lancrigg |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "LANCRIGG / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452088 / NY3305008486" |
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| hearsay:- |
William Wordsworth is said to have written much of The Prelude here. A tablet above
the terrace records, in Latin, that Dorothy Wordsworth sat there to write what her
brother composed while walking on the terrace. |
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