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| Old Brathay, Brathay | ||
| Old Brathay | ||
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| Brathay | ||
| locality:- | Brathay | |
| locality:- | Clappersgate | |
| civil parish:- | Skelwith (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | locality | |
| coordinates:- | NY366033 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3603 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 2 2) placename:- Old Brathay placename:- Brathay, Old |
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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 map:- Saxton 1579 placename:- Brathey |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorlandiae et Cumberlandiae Comitatus ie Westmorland
and Cumberland, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by Christopher Saxton, London, engraved
by Augustinus Ryther, 1576, published 1579-1645. Sax9NY30.jpg Building, symbol for a hamlet, which may or may not have a nucleus. "Brathey" item:- private collection : 2 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Speed 1611 (Wmd) placename:- Brathy |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, The Countie Westmorland and
Kendale the Cheif Towne, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by
John Speed, 1610, published by George Humble, Popes Head Alley,
London, 1611-12. SP14NY30.jpg "Brathy" circle, tower item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.5 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) placename:- Brathey |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert
Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John
Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695. MD10NY30.jpg "Brathey" Circle. item:- JandMN : 24 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | possibly old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) |
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| source data:- | Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1
mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas
Jefferys, London, 1770. J5NY30SE.jpg "Mr. Braythwaite" house item:- National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47 Image © National Library of Scotland |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Crosthwaite 1783-94 (Win/Ble) placename:- Brathay |
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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. CT9NY30R.jpg "Brathay / Geo. Law Esqr." block, building/s item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.102 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- West 1784 map placename:- Brathay |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of the Lakes in Cumberland,
Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch,
engraved by Paas, 53 Holborn, London, about 1784. Ws02NY30.jpg item:- Armitt Library : A1221.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Clarke 1787 map (Windermere N) placename:- Brathay |
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| source data:- | Map, A Map of the Northern Part of the Lake Winandermere and its
Environs, scale about 6.5 ins to 1 mile, by James Clarke,
engraved by Samuel John Neele, 352 Strand, published by James
Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland and in London etc, 1787. CLANY30R.jpg "Brathay" item:- private collection : 10.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Green 1810 placename:- Old Brathay |
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| source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature,
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10,
published 1810. goto sourcepage 12:- "..." "Brathay house and Old Brathay, the property of Henry Law, Esq. the former the residence of John Harden, Esq. and the latter of Charles Lloyd, Esq. are in Lancashire, and compose a part of the Langdale picture [from the lake] ..." |
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| evidence:- | roughly old map:- Otley 1818 placename:- Brathay |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, The District of the Lakes,
Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, scale about 4 miles to
1 inch, by Jonathan Otley, 1818, engraved by J and G Menzies,
Edinburgh, Scotland, published by Jonathan Otley, Keswick,
Cumberland, et al, 1833. OT02NY30.jpg item:- JandMN : 48.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:- Brathay |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of
Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles
to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R
Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843. FD02NY30.jpg "Brathay" item:- JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Prior 1874 map 1 placename:- Old Brathay |
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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 "Old Brathay" block/s; building/s item:- private collection : 133.1 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
The house dates from the 16th century. |
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| Charles Lloyd, quaker, banker, lived here about 1880. Various members of the Lakes
literary circle were entertained here; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Robert Southey. |
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| hearsay:- |
Two highwaymen, Gilbert alias Weston brothers, lived here. |
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