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Gale, Ambleside
locality:-   Ambleside
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
coordinates:-   NY378042 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY3704
10Km square:-   NY30
evidence:-   old text:- Green 1810
placename:-  Gale, The
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 9:-  "..."
"The Gale is a field above that in which the fir trees stand as we enter on the Kendal road, the more embodied part of the village, and the most pleasant way of approaching this field on leaving the inns, is on the public road, by the fir trees and Gale house, entering the Gale field at the back of that house."
evidence:-   old print:- Green 1821
item:-  shop sign; chimney top
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Gale Firs, Ambleside, by William Green, published at Ambleside, Westmorland, 1821.
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Plate 2 in Thirty Six Etchings from Nature. 
The view includes the Royal Oak, and the sign of Walker, painter and glazier. 
printed at upper left:-  "2"
printed at bottom:-  "GALE FIRS, AMBLESIDE. / Etched from Nature by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, May 1, 1821."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6638.2
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evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, Ambleside from The Gale, by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
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internegative at lower left:-  "H Bell"
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS12
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