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Rayrigg Bank, Windermere
Rayrigg Bank
Queen Adelaide's Hill
Adelaide Hill
locality:-   Windermere
civil parish:-   Windermere (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
locality type:-   viewpoint
coordinates:-   SD401982
1Km square:-   SD4098
10Km square:-   SD49
evidence:-   old print:- Farington 1789
item:-  
source data:-   Print, uncoloured engraving, View looking down Windermere, taken above Rarig ie Rayrigg, Lakes, Cumbria, drawn by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and T Medland, published by W Byrne, 69 Titchfield Street, London, 1789.
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printed, bottom, left, right and centre  "Drawn by Josh. Farington, R.A. / Engraved by W. Byrne &T. Medland. / View looking down WINDERMERE. / Taken above Rarig. / London: Published as the Act directs. 1 April 1789, by W. Byrne, No.79 Titchfield Street."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6669.19
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evidence:-   old print with text:- Farington 1789 (plate 19) 
placename:-  Rarig
item:-  cattle
source data:-   Print, engraving, View looking down Windermere, taken above Rarig ie Rayrigg, Lakes, Cumbria, painted by Joseph Farington, engraved by W Byrne and T Medland, published by W Byrne, 69 Titchfield Street, London, 1789.
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A farmer on horseback drives cattle up Rayrigg Bank in the foreground, Belle Isle is clear in the lake. 
Plate 19 from Views of the Lakes, &c, in Cumberland and Westmorland, published 1789; with descriptive text:-  "VIEW looking down WINDERMERE from above RARIG. ... Rarig, which lies below, is placed near the Road leading from Bowness to Ambleside, and is a Situation much admired for the many beautiful Points of View which are found in its Vicinity."
item:-  Dove Cottage : Lowther.10
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hearsay:-  
 Queen Adelaide, dowager queen of William IV, landed here 2 July 1840 and ascended the bank. She renamed it Queen Adelaide's Hill.
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