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Keswick: Jonathan Otley's
Jonathan Otley's up t'steps
Street:-   King's Head Yard
locality:-   Keswick
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   shop
locality type:-   clockmaker (once) 
coordinates:-   NY26642345
1Km square:-   NY2623
10Km square:-   NY22

MN photo:-  
Jonathan Otley had his clockmaker's shop here from 1791.

Smith, Alan (ed): 2001: Rock Men, The: Cumberland Geological Society (Keswick, Cumbria):: ISBN 0 9541102 0 X
photograph
BOJ84.jpg (taken 12.12.2007)  
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BMK93.jpg  Inscribed stone nearby:-
"HERE LIVED JONATHAN OTLEY 1766-1856 GEOLOGIST &CLOCKMAKER. / A HUMBLE STUDENT OF NATURE AND SCIENCE WHO LABOURED FOR HIS FELLOWS." (taken 24.7.2006)  

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1822 (plate 19) 
source data:-   Print, uncoloured etching, Towns Hall, Keswick, Cumberland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1822.
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GN0819.jpg
The building in the right corner is Otley's up t'steps in King's Head Yard. 
Plate 19 in Forty Etchings from Nature. 
printed at bottom:-  "TOWNS HALL, KESWICK. / Etched from Nature by William Green, &Published at Ambleside, Feby. 1, 1822."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6644.19
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