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Nell House, Patterdale
Nell House
locality:-   Patterdale
civil parish:-   Patterdale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY395158
1Km square:-   NY3915
10Km square:-   NY31
references:-   Clarke 1787 map

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
placename:-  Nell House
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 33:-  "..."
"From behind a little alehouse called Nell-House is a tolerable landscape; the meanders of Coldrill-Beck variegate and enliven the scene, and perhaps there can be no where found fields better discriminated, either in the colour or an elegant distribution of light and shade."

evidence:-   old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ullswater) 
placename:-  Nell House
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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"Nell House"
item:-  private collection : 10.4
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