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Measand Beck
runs into:-    Hawes Water

Fordingdale Beck
locality:-   Bampton Common
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   river
1Km square:-   NY4815 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY41


photograph
BTH98.jpg (taken 11.8.2010)  
photograph
BZK29.jpg  Mouth of beck, after a dryish period.
(taken 29.9.2013)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 10) 
placename:-  Measand Beck
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:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
image
J5NY41NE.jpg
single or double wiggly line; river 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
image
CY24NY41.jpg
river running into Hawes Water 
item:-  JandMN : 129
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Fordingdale Beck
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p34, button  goto source
page 34:-  "... this promontory [Killands]; on the side of which rushes, in wild impetuosity, Fordingdale Beck, a stream abounding in picturesque waterfalls."

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
placename:-  Fordingdale Beck
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
image FD01P138, button  goto source
Page 138:-  "... A richly-wooded promontory, that stretches from the west side of the lake, appears to cut it into two: a little beyond is Fordingdale Beck, presenting some beautiful cascades, ..."

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1809
placename:-  Fordingdale Beck
item:-  waterfall
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Fordingdale Beck, Measand, Bampton, Westmorland, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809.
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GN0303.jpg
Plate 4 in Seventy Eight Studies from Nature. 
printed in introductory pages to set of prints:-  "Number 4. Fordingdale Beck is an impetuous mountain torrent, which runs into Haws Water, near Measand School. There is a succession of pretty water-falls upon this beck: the one given here is simple in its accompaniments, and not difficult of imitation."
printed at bottom:-  "FORDINGDALE BECK / Pub. Ambleside Augst. 1st. 1809, by W. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6637.4
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BTH96.jpg (taken 11.8.2010)  
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BTI02.jpg (taken 11.8.2010)  

places:-  
NY48241570 footbridge, Bampton (3) (Bampton)
NY48491556 Forces, The (Bampton)
NY47811582 Fordingdale Bottom (Bampton)
NY47041582 Fordingdale Force (Bampton)
NY46311549 waterfall, Measand Beck (Bampton)
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