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| Calgarth Park, Lakes | ||
| Calgarth Park | ||
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | park (once) | |
| coordinates:- | NY39700016 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3900 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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 BPE68.jpg (correct identification?) (taken 12.5.2008) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 32 3) placename:- Calgarth Park |
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| 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. "Calgarth Park" "The Park" |
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| evidence:- | possibly old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) placename:- Palace, The |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, An Accurate Map of the Grand Lake of
Windermere, scale about 2 inches to 1 mile, by Peter
Crosthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland, 1783, version published 1819. CT9NY30V.jpg "The Palace / of Bishop Watson" block, building/s item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.102 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag item:- tree felling |
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| source data:- | Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.137 "..." "... a park belonging to the crown; and here and there may yet be met with, thinly scattered in hoary magnificence, the trunks of massive trees, whose giant forms bear testimony to the dignity of the primaeval forest, of which they are alone the solitary remains. Centuries have gone by since it was disparked, and, from being the lair and covert of the wild animals which erstwhile were almost its only tenants, its inhabitancy by man has long converted it to more benficial purposes." "Alas! for the woodland glories of Windermere; like the forest shades of Rydal, where but a score or so survive of those old dwellers of the woods which saw its earliest lords, the Norman de Lancasters, they will soon have no existence, save in the recorded recollections of some enthusiast who, like me, has loved their green retreats, and feelingly laments their indiscriminate destruction. The changeful utilitarianism of the age has invaded and much altered the landscape around since the days of the original owners of Calgarth. The Dryads of its forests have forsaken their desecrated abodes, and the lake country, no longer what it was, even but a quarter of a century ago, is fast surrendereing the remaining vestiges of its ancient picturesque appearance. It is true it is environed by the mountains and valleys with which past generations were familiar; but those indestructible features, the majestic fells, do not present the same alluring garb upon which our forefathers loved to look. In losing the wilder and more untrimmed" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag 1849 |
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| source data:- | goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1849 part 2 p.138 "luxuriance of its fresher years - in the sweeping away of its primal woods, and in the eradication of the furze and heath which decked every height with the gorgeous colouring of those incense-breathing shrubs - it has lost something for which the so-called improvements afford no substitute. Few are now the old and gnarled trees, and fewer still the tall dense woods which for ages shaded the lonely shores and promontories of the lake, or, amid grey fern, plumed rocks waved o'er the mountains' sides." "..." |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old text:- Martineau 1855 placename:- Calgarth Woods |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto source Page 15:- "..." "... Miller Brow. Hence is seen ... The Calgarth woods, for which we are indebted to Bishop Watson, rising and falling, spreading and contracting below, with green undulating meadows interposed, are a perfect treat to the eye; ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Prior 1874 map 1 placename:- Calgarth Park |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving or lithograph? Winander Mere, scale
about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett,
Windermere, Westmorland, 1874. click to enlargePI03M1.jpg "Calgarth Park" block/s; building/s item:- private collection : 133.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Calgarth Park |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "CALGARTH PARK / / / LAKES / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 452846 / NY3973200171" |
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