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| Bowder Stone House, Borrowdale | ||
| Bowder Stone House | ||
| locality:- | Bowder Stone | |
| civil parish:- | Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY25391638 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2516 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 70 6) placename:- Bowderstone Cottage |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | old print:- Green 1810 (plate 42) |
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| source data:- | Print, soft ground etching, Bowder Stone, Borrowdale, Cumberland, by William Green,
Ambleside, Westmorland, 1808. click to enlargeGN1242.jpg Plate 42 in Sixty Studies from Nature, 1810. printed at top right:- "42" printed at bottom:- "BOWDER STONE. / Drawn and Engraved by William Green, and Published at Ambleside, June 24, 1808." watermark:- "J WHATMAN / 1813" item:- Armitt Library : A6641.42 Image © see bottom of page |
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 BUF90.jpg courtesy of Keswick Museum. |
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| "BOWDER STONE." |
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| "Mary Caradus BEGS leave to acquaint the Ladies and Gentlemen visiting the Lakes and
Mountains near Keswick, that she continues at the BOWDER STONE, and attends on all
Parties desirous of SEEING AND EXAMINING THAT IMMENSE FRAGMENT OF ROCK, Supposed to
be the largest in the World, and which resembles a Ship lying upon its Keel." |
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| "The Dimensions are as follows:- Length ... 62 Feet. Perpendicular Height ... 36 Do.
Circumference ... 89 Do. Contains 23,090 Solid Feet, and Weighs 1,971 Tons 13 Cwt." |
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| "Bowder Stone House, March, 1831." |
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| "THOMAS BAILEY, PRINTER, KESWICK." |
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| hearsay:- |
Joseph Pocklington employed an old woman, who lived in the cottage near by, as a guide.
He had a hole cut through the base of the stone so that the visitor could shake hands
with the guide through the stone. |
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| hearsay:- |
An advertising ticket reads:- |
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| "BOWDER STONE. / MARY THOMPSON, / Begs leave to acquaint the Ladies and Gentlemen visiting
the Lakes and Mountains near Keswick, that she / continues at the BOWDER STONE HOUSE,
and attends on all parties desirous of seeing and examining that / IMMENSE / FRAGMENT
OF ROCK / Supposed to be the largest in the World, and which resembles a Ship / THE
DIMENSIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS: / Length, 62 feet; Perpendicular Height, 36 feet; Circumference,
89 feet; contains 23,090 solid feet; / Weighs, 1,971 ton 13 cwt.; and is a Basaltic
or Porphyritic Greenstone. / Bowder Stone House, May, 1878. / I. EVENING, PRINTER,
STATION STREET, COCKERMOUTH." |
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