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| Glow Worm Rock, Rydal | ||
| Glow Worm Rock | ||
| locality:- | Rydal (area) | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | rocks | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3605 (guess) | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s |
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| source data:- | Photograph, black and white, Glow Worm Rock, Rydal, Westmorland, by Herbert Bell,
photographer, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s. click to enlargeHB0686.jpg stamped on reverse:- "HERBERT BELL / Photographer / AMBLESIDE" item:- Armitt Library : ALPS350 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Goodwin 1887 (edn 1890) placename:- Glow Worm Rock |
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| source data:- | Print, etching? The Glow Worm Rock, Rydal area, Westmorland, by Harry Goodwin, published
by Swan Sonnenschein and Co, Paternoster Square, London, 1890. click to enlargePR1591.jpg Tipped in opposite p.98 of Through the Wordsworth Country, by William Knight. printed at lower centre:- "The Glow worm Rock" item:- JandMN : 382.21 Image © see bottom of page |
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| William Wordsworth said:- |
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| "on the right hand, a little way leading up the vale from Rydal to Grasmere. We have
been in the habit of calling it the Glow-Worm Rock, from the number of glow-worms
we have often seen hanging on it ..." |
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| It is referred to in a poem |
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| The Primrose of the Rock |
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