Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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 St Oswald, Grasmere |
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| Grasmere: Rushbearing 1893 | ||
| locality:- | Grasmere | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rushbearing | |
| coordinates:- | NY336075 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3307 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Heywood 1897 |
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| source data:- | Print, halftone photograph, rushbearing, Grasmere, Westmorland, 1893, by E Hermann
Baldry, Grasmere, published by John Heywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester,
Lancashire and 29-30 Shoe Lane, London, about 1897. click to enlargeHW0203.jpg On p.55 of The Rushbearing. item:- Armitt Library : A1489.3 Image © see bottom of page |
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| hearsay:- |
Rushbearing takes/took place every year on the 'Saturday within the Octave of St Oswald's
Day' which is 5 August. |
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| BUT since 2003 it has been moved to the end of the school term and is now on the penultimate
Saturday in July. |
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 BSI71.jpg Rushbearing, 1893. |
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