Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Stanley Ghyll Beck

Stanley Ghyll Beck

runs into:-

Esk, River (2)

locality:-

Stanley Ghyll

civil parish:-

Eskdale (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

river

1Km square:-

SD1799 (etc)

10Km square:-

SD19

CDF43.jpg (taken 4.6.2015)
photograph

CDF53.jpg (taken 4.6.2015)

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 83 2)
placename:- Stanley Gill

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:-

old text:- Green 1810
placename:- Stanley Gill

source data:-

Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.

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page 99:- "When the traveller is in Eskdale, ... on his road to Wastdale, he will be near an ancient building called Dale Garth Hall; and if he should have the curiosity to see Stanley Gill, he may have access to it by applying at the hall; the waterfall part of the Gill, is more than half a mile on the left."
"The late --- Stanley, Esq. of Ponsonby (to whose son this property now"

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page 100:- "belongs) made an excellent foot road on the banks of the Gill, which road three times changes sides by three bridges crossing the Gill; and this, with other improvements, are highly creditable to the late proprietor. - The chasm is awfully sublime, the rocks rising almost perpendicular over their bases, from the grisly sides of which, impend trees in the richest wildness. ..."

evidence:-

old map:- Garnett 1850s-60s H
placename:- Stanley Gill

source data:-

Map of the English Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland, 1850s-60s.

places:-

SD17429955 Stanley Force (Eskdale)

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