Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	landing stage, Clappersgate
site name:-	Brathay, River
locality:-	Clappersgate
civil parish:-	Lakes (formerly Westmorland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	landing stage
coordinates:-	NY37040356
1Km square:-	NY3703
10Km square:-	NY30
references:-	Green
evidence:-	old text:- Clarke 1787 item:-  slate; charcoal
source data:-	Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.   goto source Page 145:-  "... Clappersgate, where is the principal Quay for the slate, charcoal, &c. which is navigated down the Lake [Windermere], ..."
evidence:-	old text:- Green 1809
source data:-	Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Seventy Eight Studies from Nature, by William Green, published by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster Row, London, 1809. Caption to plate 42:-  "Number 42. This view of Ambleside is from a lime-kiln near the junction of the rivers Brathay and Rothay; a place where pleasure-boats for the use of the lake are moored. ..."
evidence:-	old text:- Green 1810
source data:-	Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature, by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10, published 1810.   goto source page 11:-  "... the Ambleside boats are usually moored at a place called the landing, which is at the junction of the rivers Rothay and Brathay, not three quarters of a mile from the village. ..."

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