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| Far Easedale, Grasmere | ||
| Far Easedale | ||
| site name:- | Easedale | |
| locality:- | Grasmere | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | valley | |
| coordinates:- | NY31890950 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3109 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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 CBU05.jpg (taken 24.9.2014)  CBU14.jpg Head of Far Easedale. (taken 24.9.2014) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 12) placename:- Far Easedale placename:- Easedale, Far |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | old drawing:- Brockbank 1870s placename:- Far Easedale |
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| source data:- | Drawing, pencil and ink wash, glacial moraines, drumlins? Far Easedale, Grasmere,
Westmorland, April 1871, used by William Brockbank. click to enlargePR1926.jpg "Moraines at The head of / far Easedale / April 1871" "Morianes at the head of Easedale / Wm. Brockbank [ ] / [21]" "Tarn Crag to the left divides Easedale from Far Easedale. / The nfoot road from Grasmere to Borrowdale goes along bthis / valley - [past Whitestone] / There are several sets of moraines in Far Easedale the / best being shewn in this Sketch. In the foreground is / a [flat] which looks as if it had been a Tarn & which / appears to have been formed by moraine rubbish / at its lower end." item:- Armitt Library : 1959.68.21 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Reynolds 1915 placename:- Far Easedale |
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| source data:- | Print, colour halftone, Stepping Stones, Far Easedale, Grasmere, Westmorland, from
a painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1915. click to enlargeREY605.jpg "A HEATON COOPER" "STEPPING STONES, FAR EASEDALE, GRASMERE" item:- JandMN : 1071.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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 Click to enlarge CBU19.jpg Head of Far Easedale. (taken 24.9.2014)  BUF68.jpg (taken 14.3.2011)  BUF69.jpg (taken 14.3.2011) |
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| hearsay:- |
Date stone on a barn: |
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| "S / E P / 1738" |
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