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Goody Bridge house, Grasmere
Goody Bridge
locality:-   Easedale
locality:-   Grasmere
civil parish:-   Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY33210809
1Km square:-   NY3308
10Km square:-   NY30

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 18 16) 
placename:-  Goody Bridge
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 map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Goody Bridge
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Goody Bridge"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1810 (plate 25) 
placename:-  Goody Bridge
item:-  chimney
source data:-   Print, soft ground etching, Goody Bridge in Grasmere, the house, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808.
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Plate 25 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. 
printed at top right:-  "25"
printed at bottom:-  "GOODY BRIDGE IN GRASMERE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808."
watermark:-  "J WHATMAN / 1813"
item:-  Armitt Library : A6641.25
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 23) 
placename:-  Goody Bridge
source data:-   Print, tinted soft ground etching, Goody Bridge house, Grasmere, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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and stepping stones across the Easedale Beck. 
Plate 23 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "23"
printed at bottom:-  "GOODY BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6653.23
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evidence:-   old print:- Green 1814 (plate 23) 
placename:-  Goody Bridge
source data:-   Print, uncoloured soft ground etching, Goody Bridge house, Grasmere, Westmorland, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
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and stepping stones across the Easedale Beck. 
Plate 23 in Sixty Small Prints. 
printed at top right:-  "23"
printed at bottom:-  "GOODY BRIDGE. / Published at Ambleside Augst. 1, 1814, by Wm. Green."
item:-  Armitt Library : A6656.23
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Green 1814
placename:-  Goody Bridge
source data:-   Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Small Prints, with text, A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1814.
image GN09p13, button  goto source
page 13:-  "No.23."
"GOODY BRIDGE."
"The buildings in this scene are called by the name of a stone bridge which is down the river, and on the way to Easedale from Grasmere Church. ..."

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