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| Gale Rigg House, Ambleside | ||
| Gale Rigg House | ||
| Street:- | Old Road | |
| locality:- | Ambleside | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| coordinates:- | NY37760408 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3704 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 26 10) placename:- Covey 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 text:- Green 1810 placename:- Covey Cottage |
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| source data:- | Set of prints, soft ground etchings, Sixty Studies from Nature,
by William Green, Ambleside, Westmorland, drawn 1808-10,
published 1810. goto sourcepage 13:- "[from the lake] ... Ambleside ... exhibits various detached, and pleasantly planted houses, several of them built by Robert Partridge, Esq. and one of them, Covey Cottage, is his residence. ..." |
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