Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Thirlspot, St John's Castlerigg etc

Thirlspot, St John's Castlerigg etc

Thirlspot

civil parish:-

St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

locality

locality type:-

buildings

coordinates:-

NY31681776 (etc)

1Km square:-

NY3117

10Km square:-

NY31

BNE32.jpg Joseph Farington's view from by the 6 mile stone.
(taken 17.2.2007)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 4)
placename:- Thirlspot

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:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 96)
placename:- Thurlspot

source data:-

Road strip map, hand coloured engraving, the Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, and the Road from Egremond to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby, London, 1675.

OG96m020.jpg
In mile 23, Cumberland. "Thurlspot"
houses on the right of the road.
item:- JandMN : 22
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evidence:-

old map:- Berry 1679
placename:- Thirlspot

source data:-

Road map, diagram, The Grand Roads of England, engraved by John Rich, made and published by William Berry, at the Sign of the Globe, London, 1679.
"Thirlspot"

evidence:-

old map:- Bowen 1720 (plate 260)
placename:- Thurlspot

source data:-

Road strip map, uncoloured engraving, pl.260, The Road from Kendal to Cockermouth, scale about 2 miles to 1 inch, with sections in Westmorland and Cumberland, published by Emanuel Bowen, St Katherines, London, 1720.

B260m20.jpg
At mile 23-24.
item:- private collection : 1.260
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evidence:-

old map:- Badeslade 1742
placename:- Thurlspot

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, A Map of Cumberland North from London, scale about 11 miles to 1 inch, with descriptive text, by Thomas Badeslade, London, engraved and published by William Henry Toms, Union Court, Holborn, London, 1742.

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BD10.jpg
"Thurlspot"
circle, italic lowercase text; village, hamlet or locality
item:- JandMN : 115
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evidence:-

old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760
placename:- Thurlspot

source data:-

Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John Bowles, London, 1760.

BO18NY21.jpg
"Thurlspot"
circle, tower
item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd)
placename:- Threspat

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.

D4NY31NW.jpg
"Threspat"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house
item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-

old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Ambleside to Keswick)
placename:- Trespett

source data:-

Map, A Map of the Roads Lakes etc between Keswick and Ambleside, scale about 2.5 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.

CL9NY31I.jpg
"Trespett"
item:- private collection : 10.9
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evidence:-

road book:- Cary 1798 (2nd edn 1802)
placename:- Thirlspot

source data:-

Road book, itineraries, Cary's New Itinerary, by John Cary, 181 Strand, London, 2nd edn 1802.

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C38317.jpg
page 317-318 "Thirlspot"
item:- JandMN : 228.1
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evidence:-

old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:- Thurlspot

source data:-

Map, Cumberland, scale about 15.5 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.

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GRA1Cd.jpg
"Thurlspot"
blocks, italic lowercase text, village, hamlet, locality
item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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evidence:-

old map:- Laurie and Whittle 1806
placename:- Thirlspot

source data:-

Road map, Completion of the Roads to the Lakes, scale about 10 miles to 1 inch, by Nathaniel Coltman? 1806, published by Robert H Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London, 1834.

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Lw18.jpg
"Thirlspot 288"
village or other place; distance from London
item:- private collection : 18.18
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evidence:-

old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd)
placename:- Thurlspot

source data:-

Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho, London, 1810.

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WL13.jpg
"Thurlspot"
village, hamlet, house, ...
item:- Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10
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evidence:-

old map:- Otley 1818
placename:- Thrispot

source data:-

Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies, Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick, Cumberland, et al, 1833.

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Thirlspot

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.

evidence:-

old map:- Burrow 1920s

source data:-

Road book, On the Road, Dunlop Pictorial Road Plans, volume V, strip maps with parts in Westmorland, Cumberland etc, irregular scale about 1.5 miles to 1 inch, by E J Burrow and Co, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, 1920s.

evidence:-

old print with text:- Farington 1789 (plate 18)

source data:-

Print, engraving, View on the Road Leading from Ambleside to Keswick, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and J Landseer, published by W Byrne, 79 Titchfield Street, London, 1789.

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BMZ86.jpg
The six milestone from Keswick is just south of the King's Head, Thirlspot, on the left is Castlerigg Fell, and the view looks down St John's in the Vale.
Plate 18 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789; with descriptive text:- "VIEW on the ROAD leading from AMBLESIDE to KESWICK."
"THE Road from Ambleside to Keswick affords a Series of romantic and picturesque Views, which cannot fail of impressing the Imagination of the Traveller in an extraordinary Manner. Indeed, it is scarcely possible to find a Succession of Scenes more various and contrasted. After passing the charming Scenery of Rydal, and the wild Environs which surround the Lake of that Name, from the Top of a steep Ascent, the peaceful embossomed Grassmere presents itself. Pursuing the way from this sequestered and beautiful Retreat, by a long ascending Road, a Height is gained which commands the Vale left behind, so as to produce what is termed a Bird's-Eye View. Grassmere becomes a small Feature in this extensive Landscape, and the inclosures of the cultivated Vale are crowded together like the Divisions in a Map."
"Though it does not come within the Power of the Pencil to give an ample Idea of such Scenes, yet upon the great Scale of Nature they are always affecting.- Descending on the North Side, Wythburn or Leathes Water, comes into the View, which is of a wild and barren Character. The Road passes a considerable Way on the Margin of that Lake, when it becomes again steep and winding; but the Tediousness of Alpine travelling is compensated by the Scene which opens from the Six Mile Stone, on this Side Keswick.- It is this View which is attempted to be described in the annexed Plate.- Between lofty Mountains on the right, and Rocks of high and rude Forms on the left, passes the narrow green Vale of Legberthwaite, which is divided into small Inclosures, and peopled with a few Cots. The Vale is terminated by the romantick Rock of St. John; behind which rises Saddleback, a Mountain almost vying with Skiddaw for pre-eminence, and forming a sublime Back Ground to the Scene."
item:- Dove Cottage : Lowther.49
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places:-

NY31671775 bridge, Thirlspot (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY31691775 post box, Thirlspot (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY31601730 milestone, St John's Castlerigg etc (5) (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn)

NY31701776 King's Head (St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn) L

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