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Yew Tree Farm, Coniston
Yew Tree Farm
civil parish:-   Coniston (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
locality type:-   workplace
coordinates:-   SD31949986
1Km square:-   SD3199
10Km square:-   SD39

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BOB89.jpg 
(taken 3.9.2007)  
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BOB90.jpg  Barn with a spinning gallery.
(taken 3.9.2007)  
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT01P158, button  goto source
Page 158:-  "The THIRD division - forming only inferior elevations - commences with a bed of dark-blue or blackish transition limestone, containing here and there a few shells and madrepores, and alternating with a slaty rock of the same colour; the different layers of each being in some places several feet, in others only a few inches in thickness. This limestone crosses the river Duddon near Broughton; passing Broughton Mills it runs in a north-east direction through Torver, by the foot of the Old Man mountain, and appears near Low Yewdale and Yew Tree. Here it makes a considerable slip to the eastward, after which it ranges past the Tarns upon the hills above Borwick Ground; and stretching through Skelwith, it crosses the head of Windermere near Low Wood Inn. Then passing above Dovenest and Skelgill, it traverses the vales of Troutbeck, Kentmere, and Long Sleddale;"
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, 'between Tilberthwaite and Yewdale', Coniston, Lancashire, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, about 1845-46.
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"between / Tilberthwaite & / Yewdale."
page number  "38"
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.488.43
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   old drawing:- Aspland 1840s-60s
placename:-  Yew Tree Farm
source data:-   Drawing, pencil, clapper bridge near Yew Tree Farm, Yewdale, Coniston, Cumberland, by Theophilus Lindsey Aspland, 20 September 1849.
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"on the Road to Yewdale / nr Yew tree farm"
"Sept. 20 / 1849."
item:-  Armitt Library : 1958.487.49
Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Yew Tree Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"YEW TREE FARMHOUSE / / A 593 / CONISTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76785 / SD3194899864"
evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"BARN TO SOUTH WEST OF YEW TREE FARMHOUSE / / A593 (N SIDE) / CONISTON / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76786 / SD3193499841"

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BZQ42.jpg  Chickens.
(taken 19.11.2013)  
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BZQ43.jpg  Sheepfold.
(taken 19.11.2013)  
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BOB91.jpg  For the pigs?
(taken 3.9.2007)  
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BVR22.jpg  Barn with a spinning gallery.
(taken 15.11.2011)  
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BOB92.jpg  Barn with a spinning gallery.
(taken 3.9.2007)  
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BWT87.jpg  Turkey.
(taken 18.6.2012)  
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BZQ44.jpg  Horse.
(taken 19.11.2013)  
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BVR21.jpg (taken 15.11.2011)  
MN photo:-  
 Heritage Meats

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BVR16.jpg  Tyeing up a leg of lamb.
(taken 15.11.2011)  
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BVR17.jpg  Weighing.
(taken 15.11.2011)  
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BVR18.jpg  Wrapping in freezer pack.
(taken 15.11.2011)  
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BVR19.jpg  Knives and bone saw.
(taken 15.11.2011)  
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BVR20.jpg  Van.
(taken 15.11.2011)  
hearsay:-  
 Beatrix Potter bought the farm in the 1930s. She encouraged her tenants to serve teas to visitors.
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