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Wasdale Hall, Nether Wasdale
Wasdale Hall
Wastwater Youth Hostel
YHA Wastwater
locality:-   Wasdale
civil parish:-   Nether Wasdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   youth hostel
coordinates:-   NY14480449
1Km square:-   NY1404
10Km square:-   NY10

evidence:-   probably old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Daker End
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.
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"Daker End"
block or blocks, labelled in lowercase; a hamlet or just a house 
item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 2
Image © Carlisle Library

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Daker End
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.
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"Daker End"
No symbol, area? 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Rose 1832-35 (vol.3 no.43) 
placename:-  Wasdale Hall
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, Wasdale Hall, Cumberland, drawn by Thomas Allom, engraved by H Wallis, published by Fisher, Son and Co, London, 1832-35.
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vol.3 pl.43 in the set of prints, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland Illustrated. 
printed at bottom left, right, centre:-  "T. Allom. / H. Wallis. / WASDALE HALL, CUMBERLAND. / THE SEAT OF STANSFIELD RAWSON, ESQRE."
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2008.107.47
Image © see bottom of page

hearsay:-  
Built 1829-43 for Stansfield Rawson; stone and timber. Purchased by the National Trust, 1959; let to the Youth Hostels Association.

person:-   society
 : Youth Hostels Association
date:-   1978

: 1978 (8th edn): Youth Hostels in Lakeland: Youth Hostels Association|

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