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| Lanthwaite, Buttermere | ||||
| Lanthwaite | ||||
| civil parish:- | Buttermere (formerly Cumberland) | |||
| county:- | Cumbria | |||
| locality type:- | locality | |||
| locality type:- | buildings | |||
| locality type:- | flood | |||
| coordinates:- | NY15912078 (etc) | |||
| 1Km square:- | NY1520 | |||
| 10Km square:- | NY12 | |||
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| evidence:- | old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) placename:- Longthwaite |
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| 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. D4NY12SE.jpg "Longthwaite" block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (But/Cru/Low) placename:- Longthwaite |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of Buttermere,
Crummock and Loweswater Lakes, scale about 3 inches to 1 mile,
by Peter Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1794, version
published 1800. CT8NY12K.jpg "Longthwaite" item:- Armitt Library : 1959.191.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:- Longthwaite |
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| 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. FD02NY12.jpg "Longthwaite" item:- JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 item:- storm, 1760; waterspout; flood, 1760; weather |
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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 131:- "... The most tremendous waterspout remembered in the region of the lakes, descended the ravine between Grassmoor and Whiteside, in 1760. It swept the whole side of Grassmoor at midnight, and carried down everything that was lying loose all through the vale below, and" goto sourcePage 132:- "over a piece of arable land at the entrance, where it actually peeled the whole surface, carrying away the soil and the trees, and leaving the rocky substratum completely bare. The soil was many feet deep, and the trees fullgrown. Then it laid down what it brought, covering ten acres with the rubbish. By the channel left, it appears that the flood must have been five or six yards deep, and a hundred yards wide. Among other pranks, it rooted up a solid stone causeway, which was supported by an embankment apparently as strong as the neighbouring hills. The flood not only swept away the whole work, but scooped out the entire line for its own channel. ..." |
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| hearsay:- |
A terrible waterspout was described in:- |
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| Gilpin, John: 1772: Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty |
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| This was probably a cloudburst in the hills which flooded down the gully onto Lanthwaite
Green:- |
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| "... charging itself with all the rubbish it found there it made its way into the vale.
At the foot of the mountain it was received by a piece of arable ground; on which
its violence first broke. Here it tore away trees, soil and gravel; and laid bare,
many feet in depth to the naked rock. Over the next ten acres it seems to have made
an immense roll; covering them with so vast a bed of stones that no human art can
ever again restore the soil. When we saw the place, tho' twelve years after the event,
many marks remained, still flagrant of this scene of ruin." |
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| The flood was diverted from Brackenthwaite by the rock on which the houses stood,
and fell into the River Cocker, causing more flooding. |
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