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Fordingdale Bottom, Bampton
Fordingdale Bottom
site name:-   Measand Beck
locality:-   Measand
locality:-   Bampton Common
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   valley
coordinates:-   NY47811582 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY4715
10Km square:-   NY41


photograph
BZK39.jpg (taken 29.9.2013)  
photograph
BTH99.jpg (taken 11.8.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 13 10) 
placename:-  Fordingdale Bottom
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:-   outline view:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) 
placename:-  Fordendale
source data:-   Engraving, outline view of mountains, Hawes Water from Measand Beck, drawn by T Binns, engraved by O Jewitt, opposite p.16 of A Descriptive Guide of the English Lakes, by Jonathan Otley, 8th edition, 1849.
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O80E09.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : A1180.10
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1856 (23rd edn 1900) 
placename:-  Fordingdale
source data:-   Print, lithograph, Outline Views, Haws and Wastwater - Mountains as seen from Burn-Banks near the Foot of Hawes Water, and Mountains as seen near Nether Wastdale at the First Bridge on the road to Wast-Water, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1900.
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BC08E6.jpg
"... 10 Fordingdale ..."
item:-  JandMN : 37.21
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   outline view:- Black 1841 (3rd edn 1846) 
placename:-  Fordingdale
source data:-   Print, engraving, outline view, Mountains as seen from Burn Banks near the Foot of Hawes Water, and Mountains as seen near Strands in Wastdale at the First bridge on the Road to Wast Water, by J Flintoft, Keswick, Cumberland, engraved by R Mason, Edinburgh, Lothian, about 1846.
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BC02E8.jpg
"... 10 Fordingdale ..."
item:-  JandMN : 32.12
Image © see bottom of page


photograph
BTH98.jpg  and Measand Beck.
(taken 11.8.2010)  
photograph
BZK40.jpg (taken 29.9.2013)  
photograph
BZK55.jpg (taken 29.9.2013)  

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