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| stepping stones, Seathwaite | ||
| Wordsworth's Stepping Stones | ||
| Wordsworth's Stones | ||
| site name:- | Duddon, River | |
| locality:- | Seathwaite | |
| civil parish:- | Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire) | |
| civil parish:- | Ulpha (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stepping stones | |
| coordinates:- | SD22389631 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2296 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD29 | |
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 BQO86.jpg (taken 29.5.2009)  BQO87.jpg (taken 29.5.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series |
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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. "Stepping Stones" |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Payn 1867 placename:- Wordsworth's Stepping Stones |
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| source data:- | Print, uncoloured engraving, Wordsworth's Stepping Stones, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite,
Lancashire, by T L Aspland, engraved by J Cooper, published by J Garnett, Windermere,
Westmorland, 1867. click to enlargePN0337.jpg On p.68 of The Lakes in Sunshine, text by James Payn. printed at lower left:- "J. COOPER. SC" printed at bottom:- "WORDSWORTH'S STEPPING STONES." item:- Fell and Rock Climbing Club : 184.37 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, stepping stones in the River Duddon, Seathwaite, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite,
Lancashire, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0508.jpg stamped at reverse:- "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS171 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | probably old print:- Heaton Cooper 1905 (edn 1908) |
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| source data:- | Print, colour halftone, Stepping Stones, Seathwaite, Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite/Ulpha,
Lancashire, from a watercolour painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper, published by Adam
and Charles Black, London, 2nd edn 1908. click to enlargeHC0126.jpg Opposite p.74 of The English Lakes, painted by Alfred Heaton Cooper, described by William T Palmer. printed at tissue opposite the print:- "STEPPING STONES, SEATHWAITE" item:- JandMN : 468.26 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BQO88.jpg (taken 29.5.2009) |
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| hearsay:- |
On the path that leads from Seathwaite to High Wallowbarrow. |
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| Said to be called locally:- |
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| "Wordsworth's stones" |
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| poem:- |
A sonnet by William Wordworth has:- |
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| "The struggling rill insensibly is grown Into a brook of loud and stately march, Crossed ever and anon by plank or arch; And, for like use, lo! what might seem a zone Chosen for ornament - stone matched with stone In studied symmetry, with interspace for the clear waters to pursue their race Without restraint. ..." |
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